Ha Giyeon lived perpetually shadowed by his flawless older brother, forever inadequate. Each romantic aspiration dissolved against the same cruel truth—his brother's friends, all delivering rejection wrapped in cruelty. The ultimate devastation arrived when he uncovered the impossible: he wasn't even their blood son. Discarded by those he treasured most, Ha Giyeon scraped through existence via backbreaking labor, subsisting rather than flourishing. A car accident brought him to death—yet his final prayer became unshakeable resolve. If life offered him another chance, he would forge a new oath: never again love the family that despised him, never again yield to brothers who'd disguised their torment as affection, and reclaim his existence as wholly, authentically his own. At seventeen, winter's return marked Ha Giyeon's rebirth. As he transformed into someone untethered and whole, those who'd destroyed him—his family, his oppressors—discovered themselves yearning for the boy they'd abandoned.