To You Whom I Always Hate

On a cold winter night, my only friend jumped from a building and became a vegetable. And the last person he tried to contact was me. And I—I didn't receive that call. I didn't answer it. As Han Jae-eum is consumed by guilt, the parents of the comatose Han-gyeol seek him out. They presented Jae-eum with a proposal: Since it is all your fault, live in Han-gyeol's stead until he wakes up. To live someone else's life. It was an absurd request, but Han Jae-eum could not refuse. Thus, he enters university in place of his friend. Not as 'Lee Jae-eum,' but as 'Lee Han-gyeol.' Han-gyeol's parents said they had pulled strings in various ways. So, he believed that as long as he quietly atte...