The narrator tells us that his mom has been hooking up with her dad, and that her dad has mortgaged their family's time to invest in real estate. His dad wants to open a chain hotel in taiyang, but his grandfather has a heart attack and dies six months later. After his death, he gives the narrator a cookbook containing all of his work. The narrator asks what his job is, and his mom says that she wants him to work in the catering business so that she can take over his dad's business in the future. She also gives him antibiotics to make sure that he doesn't have a cold or fever once he gets sick, and she gives him a strawberry brulee every day to make up for the bitter taste in her mouth.