“You know? I believe that the total quantity of happiness and unhappiness is equal. If something good happens to one person, someone somewhere will definitely encounter a mishap,” Jayeon said as she grabbed her cup.

“It’s the case when I look back at my life as well. It might look like only shit stuff happened which makes my life looks like a shithole, but if I keep going through my memories, there are definitely happy things taking up space in a corner. If life was a series of downhills with no room to breathe and no moments of happiness, that person would have jumped into the Han river in order to find happiness. They are only able to live because there’s a reason that allows them to endure.”

Maru ate a piece of sliced peach. There was a slight bitterness after a sweet taste. Was happiness and unhappiness like this as well? Like what Jayeon said, the total quantity of happiness and unhappiness should be equal. In a general view, happiness should fill 50% of society while the other 50% is filled with unhappiness. He could agree with that. But when it came to the individuals? The first thing that came to his mind was ‘really?’. The total amount of happiness and unhappiness might equal each other when you consider society as a whole, but he believed that it would be different when it came...