Chapter 75: The Tomorrow I Wait For
Son Suhyeon had always thought of himself a certain way.
He had no parents. He was a lonely orphan. His personality wasn’t good. If something scared him, he ran. People who approached him based only on his appearance would inevitably retreat once they saw what was underneath.
He’d been hurt like that so many times that eventually, he stopped giving people a chance. He began to hate them—before they even got close. He avoided, ignored, and shut the door before it could open.
But Ha Giyeon... was different.
For the first time, Suhyeon had revealed what was inside first.
And Giyeon didn’t react with horror. He didn’t pretend not to care—he genuinely didn’t. Like it was nothing out of the ordinary. Like he’d become too numb to flinch.
To Giyeon, all of it seemed trivial. He was too busy surviving.
Suhyeon liked that about him.
And maybe—he had been seeing Giyeon as someone more miserable than himself.
Even while hating people who offered pity, Suhyeon had acted just like them—projecting his own pity onto Giyeon, feeling a twisted sense of superiority.
It disgusted him.
That he had become one of them. That he had been comforted by the idea that someone else had it worse.