If life were to be expressed as a curve, it would never be a continuous upward trajectory.

Life rises, only to fall, and sometimes, it plummets unexpectedly. Hyesung learned this lesson when he lost his parents, and since then, he had adopted it as his personal philosophy.

One benefit of such a mindset was that it naturally made a person humble.

He never allowed himself to become arrogant. Even when he was accepted into a prestigious university that others envied, and when he graduated at the top of his class after struggling so hard, Hyesung remained indifferent. People around him …