Until He Became an Orchid
한 명의 난초가 되기까지
Life is about living for someone else. Jieon has always lived for others—her struggling neighbors, her mother, and her aunt. During the winter before her senior year of high school, she attends the funeral of Uiju, her only friend from the neighborhood, and there she meets his older brother, Uitae. “You’re Yang Jieon, right?” He scares her. He can barely use chopsticks properly, and even what he does for a living is unclear. Yet she can’t stop worrying about him, so she begins bringing him side dishes and even tutoring him. He is the most pitiful man she has ever met. What begins as sympathy gradually develops into something else. “I like you.” “Jieon… this is the first time anyone has ever told me they like me.” Life is simply about living. Uitae had always believed he was completely alone in the world. But after meeting Jieon, for the first time, he begins to want something for himself. To spend the rest of his life with her. For this moment to last forever.