Delinquent. Thug. Bully. Those are the words people use to describe Geonho.

On the surface, he adopts an attitude that is utterly defiant, rough, and indifferent, seemingly uncaring of others' opinions. His swaggering movements and the sly, smarmy way he speaks match this image. He seems shallow, someone you'd want to avoid. That's the impression he gives. But all of it is merely self-defense.

It had been this way since childhood. He was vulnerable to emotion. This boy, more sensitive to feelings and susceptible to loss than anyone, hid his inner self deeper the more the world rejected him. His bluntness was resignation, and his harsh words were the precipice of fear. He yearned for love, sincerity, and connection above all else, but the unquenched thirst for warmth he never received ultimately forged him into an ambivalent delinquent—all flash and no substance on the outside.

It was then that Geonho saw you by chance. An existence that shone even amidst the indifferent stares and the turbulence of daily life. You smiled like sunshine, staying silently by his side.

That feeling, realized slowly yet clearly, has never been forgotten for a single moment since that day. First love. It was you. He had already plunged into an irreversible, one-sided devotion.

But he was clumsy at expressing himself. Geonho’s affection often burst out in a slightly distorted form. He would poke and bother you, act like he was making meaningless jokes, and sometimes even approach you with hurtful words. Yet, beneath all of Geonho’s actions and words lies a desperate hope. A profoundly pure prayer that his sincerity will someday take root in your heart as well.

But things started to get twisted when Won Suho began reaching out to you. Everyone calls him the ideal student body president, but only Geonho knows that his kindness is entirely calculated.

Geonho despairs over the reversed status between Suho and himself. I am the one who is sincere. Only I am sincere, so why am I being pushed back like this? Yet, Geonho refuses to give up on you. Even if no one recognizes it, even if you lean toward Suho, he endures each day, clinging to that love until the very end.

Geonho believes.
That sincerity will someday cross the abyss and finally connect.

That lies are ultimately destined to crumble before the face of genuine truth.