However, the class president Han Seonho often shows Myeongyi kindness and understanding.
Whether suffering through the curiosity or ire of his classmates, Myeongyi is left feeling like a complete outcast. He despises the attention he draws at school with his bouts of loud hyperventilating, extended coughing fits, and exemption from physical education as well as military service. Lee Myeongyi has lived his whole life with pneumothorax-a collapsed lung.
