What does it mean to be truly happy? To smile and throw jokes around you? But this can't be a mask that helps you hide? Isn't it possible that those who always seem cheerful and carefree, are the most vulnerable inside? Is it not possible that those who are surrounded by light, are those who plunge into darkness the strongest?
Sunghoon knows what it means to work to live, from a young age. He knows how important it is to be serious and how difficult it is to make money. So when a new classmate appears in the landscape, the fact that the boy with hazel eyes throws money as if it doesn't matter at all, makes him to hate that boy, even though he doesn't know him.
Even if he doesn't want that spoiled boy around, somehow, the boy keeps getting in his way. And even if it really annoys him that Sunoo, apparently the name of the new classmate, has money without working at all, he realizes at a certain moment that maybe, the boy who irritates him, has not really a life free of worries and pain.
"You know what's weird? The fact that I feel like my heart is breaking more and more into pieces, but the smile appears on my face, out of habit."
"You're different from what I expected," she said softly.
"How so?" he asked, glancing at her.
"I don't know," she replied, searching for the right words. "You just... have this way of making people feel like they matter. Even here, in this... nightmare."
He was quiet for a moment before responding. "You matter, Y/n. Don't forget that."
OR
Y/n wakes up in the deadly Squid Game, surrounded by strangers and fighting to survive. What she doesn't know is that the mysterious Frontman is watching her every move through the cameras- and she's caught his attention.