High School Love On

Irresistible And Out Of The Blue!

We open in the spring of 2016, at a university campus. A student-our hero-bumps into a girl in front of a building, and she drops her books at his feet. He returns most of them, but before he can hand her the last one, she's off without a word.

Her face is kept purposely hidden from us-and from him-and there's something rather urgent in the way he runs after her, trying to catch up. But he loses her around the bend.

He looks down at the book, titled A Hand to You (on the cover, a note has been handwritten in pen, "To Dummy"). He heaves a heavy sigh of disappointment.

A sudden downpour sends him running for cover, which is where a girl steps up next to him, her face hidden under an umbrella. He recognizes the gold key necklace she's wearing and his fingers instinctively touch the silver necklace around his neck, in the shape of a lock.

"You..." he starts to say in surprise. But the girl with the hidden face walks off again.

He thinks, "In the time in my life when you were my every moment, we loved. And in this moment now, I hope that it's you."

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Then we jump backward two years, to the spring of 2014.

We resume with our hero, named SHIN WOO-HYUN, an 18-year-old in his second year of high school. As he rides his scooter carrying a grocery delivery, another teenager steps directly into his path. With mere seconds to react, Woo-hyun skids madly, trying to stop.

Suddenly all motion sloooooows to crawl, then halts entirely. Time freezes for everyone-except for one girl perched on the roof of a building, who watches curiously. In a flash, she materializes by the boy about to be hit, tugs him back a few feet, then poofs out of the way. She doesn't have a name yet but she's the one described as an "angel"

Time resumes and Woo-hyun tumbles off his scooter, a little bruised but not seriously harmed. The other guy barely even acknowledges his existence, much less says thank you. He is HWANG SUNG-YEOL, a cold and indifferent sort, the diametric opposite of good-natured, well-liked Woo-hyun.

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On his way to school in the morning, Woo-hyun comes across a man who collapses on the sidewalk and jumps into action, performing CPR. While a small crowd gathers around him, our angel materializes at the scene, her ever-present big book firmly in hand, and addresses the collapsed man: "Come out now."

The man's soul pops out of his body, and the angel confirms in her book that he's the one slated to die today. The man gapes in confusion and wonders who she is, and she explains for us that she's a guide for humans-angel is what she gets called in Korean, but in the West we'd generally say reaper.

Our reaper-angel leads away the man's soul, unseen to the human world. So when Woo-hyun realizes he's late and darts off at a run, he zooms right through her. The angel feels the force slam into her and thinks, "After meeting that human, very strange things began to happen."

Woo-hyun's CPR was caught on video and earns him admiration from girls at school, though he doesn't get puffed up on the flattery. (He's the type who's so cool that he doesn't care whether people think he's cool, which frankly makes him cooler.)

Class gets interrupted by the sudden arrival of a haughty mother, who asks for Woo-hyun and then slaps him full in the face. Her daughter Jin-young is mortified as her mother accuses Woo-hyun of toying with her daughter's emotions and luring her away from her studies; Jin-young has been cutting academy classes to follow him around, and Mom is not having her future ruined because of a boy.