"You have to study harder," the narrator says, "everyone should have heard this before . . at least once . in their lifetime" . He's referring to the famous line, "Everyone should've had these words before, at least one time in their life" , which is a reference to the fact that we're about to hear a lot of the same words in this chapter. The narrator says that he's not sure if he'll be able to bear it, but he thinks it's probably going to hurt him a lot. He compares this scene to a "hospital play" and says that young Joon was kind of the kind of person he was referring to when he said, "you have to be hard on yourself" ; he thinks this is going to be a real-life version of the hospital play. Joon is late for their meeting, and they've shared a code of recognition so they can recognize each other. They're both waiting for each other in the hallway of the hotel, and Joon has been waiting for him all this time. He tells Joon that he mistook the meeting time for 6pm, and he apologizes for being late. He says he was worried that he wouldn't show up, but judging from the smell of alcohol, he doesn't think that he drank lightly. He asks Joon if she's "lonely heeyeon," and she says that it is normal for people to be confused about time. She tells him that she was worried about him not showing up, and that he was drunk. She says she was surprised that he didn't recognize her, because it was normal for her to get confused with time. When Joon asks if he recognized her red hair, she replies that it was