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In an empty church, a young couple grips hands
tightly, wearing solemn faces. The groom starts to
recites his wedding vows and promises never to
let his wife's hand go from this moment on.

Then he turns to face her, cupping her face
tenderly in his hands.

Before he can seal the vow with a kiss, the doors
of the church burst open, and gangsters pour
inside. The leader accuses the groom of stealing
his hyungnim's woman the groom counters that
she was his woman from the start and then
orders his thugs to kill him.

The ensuing fight puts the groom at a grave
disadvantage, and he's soon bloody and battered
despite doing his best to fight them off. It doesn't
look good...

His bride's scream supplies the groom with
renewed energy he fights better and faster now,
dodging attacks and delivering blows. A blow to
the head doesn't even slow him down, and he
fights on.

Then the boss takes out a gun and shoots him
right in the heart.

The groom stands still in shock as he registers his
wound. A tear falls from his eye.

He steps toward his bride, and bang! He's shot
again. But that doesn't faze him, and neither does
the next gunshot. By the time he snatches the gun
away from the gangster, everyone looks puzzled.

"I don't want to die,"the groom says matter of
factly. And behind the cameras, the crew gapes:
They're on a drama set, the groom is actor Byun Baekhyun, and this is the big
climactic finale.

The director points out that his death was written
in from the start, but Baekhyun
says he changed his mind: "I can't die this way, director."
He requests a script change and walks off.

Baekhyun's team is at their wits' end, with the
scriptwriter refusing to edit the ending. The finale
airs tonight and they're in danger of missing the
broadcast; rumors of the discord have hit the
internet and Baekhyun is taking a netizen
beating for his arrogance.

But things become clearer when Baekhyun
shows up at a hospital and speaks solemnly to
his doctor, unable to wrap his head around the
diagnosis he'd been given. How can he be so
healthy and fit and be dying of an incurable
disease that gives him less than a year to live?

He asks if the doctor could have mistaken his
condition, or confused him for his fated to die
drama character, but the doctor remains assured
of his diagnosis. Baekhyun asks with a touch
of defiance, "What if I say I won't die? How can
you know when I'll die? What if I refuse to die,
then what?"

As he sits in his car afterward, Baekhyun
agency president pleads with him to just die the
drama has filmed everything else, and if he would
just agree to die, everything would wrap up
smoothly. His eyes fill with angry tears, not
wanting to give in even to this fictional death.

On to a rainy field at night time, where a woman
sets up a camera while talking to a friend on the
phone, who sobs loudly into her ear. She's Kim Hyoyeon, and she's stunned silent when her
friend wails, "Byun Baekhyun died!

And then her friend clarifies that he died in the
drama's finale, and Hyoyeon relaxes.

Just then, Hyoyeon spots a truck pulling up in the rain
and gets down low to the ground, her camera
recording as several men do something with large
metal barrels. Suddenly, her camera gets shoved
aside as one of the men glares down at her
threateningly.

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