Baek Eun-ho

CHAPTER OF ALL THINGS

Chapter of All Things · 11-13

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Plum Blossom in the Snow

As all things don the warmth and vie to bloom,

There is a flower that alone lifts its head, enduring the biting winter cold.

The soul of a man who waited for the spring to greet his beloved, only to freeze in the frozen earth, became the plum blossom.

The flowers bloomed, but spring never came.

This is called Plum Blossom in the Snow (雪中梅).

CHAPTER TWELVE

Snow Man

There is a strange being that appears only in the blizzards of deep winter, known as the Snow Man (雪男).

Clad in white mourning clothes, his form is more dazzling than snow, yet his skin is colder than ice, devoid of any warmth.

Though his pure heart does not directly harm, those who are mesmerized by his beauty often wander into the snowfields and freeze to death.

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

A Cruel Fate

Legend has it that a Snow Man once yearned for a human and embraced them.

As the man loved the human, he melted away in their warmth, much like lingering snow melting under the spring sun.

And as the human loved the man, they froze before spring arrived, like a plum blossom in the snow.

In the end, the beloved froze to death in the Snow Man's chilling embrace, like a single flower.

Their love was a cruel fate, completed only by the demise of one.