# This section is going to be covering CIX's basic and surface storyline, i.e from their HELLO Chapter 2: Hello, Strange Place all epilogues and episodes.
A quick storytime of what I understood from it :
Yonghee's the protagonist. He's probably very much depressed and the reasons can be :
1) Bullying
2) Forced (by parents) to earn good marks
3) Loneliness (no friends or family at support)
4) Stress of studying*
It was break time. Yonghee was sitting on his chair, and eyes were on his mark sheet. Seems like he topped the class again. But his expressions were sad and weak. Jinyoung entered the classroom and noticed Yonghee sitting in his place. He moved through the crowd of his classmates and sat beside Yonghee's bench. Yonghee grabbed his pouch and removed a blade. He stared at the sharpness of the blade and without hesitating he made the blade touch his wrist. Jinyoung noticed it and immediately kicked Yonghee's bench and made him fall. Everyone's eyes were on them now. Silence spread throughout the classroom. Jinyoung was so shocked at Yonghee's attempt that he quickly grabbed him by the collar and made him crash on the school cupboard. He punched him. Blood started dripping down his mouth. Yonghee was helpless, and Jinyoung too. But what can he do? He cared about him. Jinyoung didn't hesitate to push him again against the cupboard. He left the classroom. Other classmates stared at the scene, shocked and scared. Yonghee weakly sat down on the floor, making a small puddle of blood down his wrist which he hurt by the blade.
Even if I say that he is lonely, he does seem to have a friend, who has to be Jinyoung*. So Jinyoung is his friend, but something happened* between them and they aren't close as they used to be first. After watching the films it looks like Jinyoung does care about Yonghee but does not know about his depression or him getting bullied. He is seen to be kind of stalking Yonghee, not that seriously after he found out about him trying to attempt suicide by cutting himself with the help of a blade.
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BX was seen walking on the school ground and he was suddenly shocked by watching a guy getting bullied by a gang of students. That person was none other than Yonghee. He had noticed BX standing there and staring at him getting hit but BX didn't do anything. He did keep fidgeting with a black matchbox that had the number "1226" carved. He left the place, leaving Yonghee to suffer. This was the memory he was recalling. He stayed laid on his bed and thought about that scene. He then got up and burned all his school books and uniform in the fire. Soon a flower (pink rose?) was seen to be in BX's hands from the fire.
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Seunghun was seen to be dancing in a dance studio and he had completed practicing and was set to go back to his house when suddenly he noticed a message on his phone. Seems like it's from his mom. He quickly smiled and hurried off. He was soon walking past the studio.
I probably guess that he is a trainee under some unknown company.
He looked really happy, and the reason might be because he was going to meet his mom that night. But then, suddenly a car was seen rushing towards the lady who was crossing the road. And within a second, it leads to an accident. Seunghun quickly ran towards the scene and realized that it was his mother. Tears couldn't stop falling from his eyes. The next day he was seen standing on the zebra crossing, lost in thought with his headphones on his ears and an umbrella upon his head. Looks like it was raining that day.
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Yonghee was sitting on the school rooftop, nearly at the edge of it. He glanced at the night sky and explored the stars shining elegantly upon the city. He slightly smiled at them. A tear went tripping down his bruised cheeks. He weakly picked up his phone and started typing. He sent a message to his mom.
"Mom, why didn't you show me the night sky before? It looks so beautiful from the school rooftop."
Another tear was noticed sliding down on his other cheek. He kept his phone down beside him and removed his watch from his hurt wrist and kept it beside the phone. He weakly stood up and took a deep breath. He was one foot behind from the deep depth of the city. He was about to lift the foot ahead when he heard his phone ringing. It was his mom. He stared at it for a few seconds but did not think of answering it. He ignored the call and slowly moved his foot forward. It was just one blink and he went dashing down the air, falling. The phone kept ringing.
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Yonghee's mom was in the car and was busy with something when she suddenly received a message. The person was familiar. It was Yonghee. She opened the message and was in confusion. She got suspicious. Her fingers immediately dialed Yonghee's number and called him. A minute passed but he didn't answer. She got even more suspicious and worried. She caught hold of the car keys and made the engine alive. In no time the car was speeding rapidly across the street showing no sign of slowing down to the direction of his school. While she continued to speed up, she noticed a lady trying to cross the street. It was too late. She was hit by the car.*
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Hyunsuk was sitting on the bus stand, looks like he was waiting for his father to reach the bus stop from a bus that was on the way. He was solving a rubrics cube, but it was too soon that it got solved. He sighed and kept it aside. He opened his phone and checked the time.
"10:00 PM."
It was a bit late. He sent a message to his father.
"Don't you miss me?"
He was about to send another message but stopped. He got tired of waiting. The bus was nowhere to be seen yet. He grabbed his school bag and walked past the bus stop. While he was walking, he noticed an ambulance hurrying down the street. Seems like it was an emergency.*
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Yonghee was badly hurt. He had lost a lot of blood already and was almost going to die. The nurses and doctors made the stretcher's speed faster by pushing it towards the emergency room. They brought a defibrillator and used it on his chest. They tried saving him. They did maybe because the heartbeat started beating again.
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1) studying* - Students in South Korea spend much of their time, often between 12 to 16 hours per day, at school or at a special after-school academy called a hagwon. So it's difficult to cope with it.
2) Jinyoung* - Again, he saved, or I would say made him stop from attempting cutting. So he probably cares about him but does not know the reason why he's doing that.
3) happened*- I don't really know what can happen between them, but if you watch Numb MV, you can notice Jinyoung and Yonghee standing in a school passageway (?), and the floor suddenly starts breaking up and they both are drifted apart from each other. And then after some seconds, Jinyoung starts walking past Yonghee, leaving him on the other side. So this is just my guess.
4) car.* - It has to be the same black car that Yonghee's mom drove just because she was driving it fast across the street as she was extremely worried.
5) emergency.* - My guess is that the ambulance is either carrying Yonghee, or Seunghun's mom as both the incidents happened on the same night. (Again a guess lol). But my mind is confident about Yonghee. And the reason why Hyunsuk's father didn't come back to him can also lead to the connection of the incidents. My guess is that he's a doctor and he works at the same hospital where either Yonghee/Seunghun's mom is admitted in.
See you soon for the next chapter! Happy new year <3
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