Hyesung woke up the next day just before 9 a.m. A nurse had gently awakened him after noticing that he had fallen asleep in a chair outside the ICU. Hyesung hadn’t slept at all during the night, spending the entire time crying outside Lee Hyuk’s room. Sungjin had checked in on him several times, urging him to go home, but Hyesung had stubbornly refused.

The nurses and other visitors in the hospital, aware of the pain of simply watching a loved one lying in a hospital bed, chose to ignore Hyesung’s distress out of respect.

It seemed that he had …