Down gems were indeed drugs. It didn’t take long for Jung Chan-Sik’s decision, intended to aid Lee Jun-Young’s mental well-being, to end up completely ruining her instead.

Jung Chan-Sik had belatedly stopped giving her down gems, but she had already developed a severe addiction to them by then. The situation had gone out of control, and there was no way of controlling her.

Although her mind had been completely wasted, her body seemed to have been strengthened by the effect of the drug. When she stopped receiving her doses of the down gem drug, she went into a frenzy and caused severe chaos in the process.

Eventually, Jung Chan-Sik had to calm the situation by giving her the drug again, albeit at a lower dosage. But even he knew that it was only a temporary workaround.

Thus, he had entrusted her to Kim Jin-Woo, someone he knew would willingly take her in. But despite seemingly having taken a heavy burden off his shoulders, Jung Chan-Sik became hostile to Kim Jin-Woo after that day.

That relationship had carried on until this very day.

Lee Jun-Young’s cloudy eyes were blurry and failed to focus on anything, and her parched lips were half open as she struggled to breathe. Her long hair was a tangled mess, having not been...