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IH said he was scaring her but acted normal the following day.

He saw YH waiting at the station. At the studio, he told her to take off her clothes. He examined the Mongolian mark intently. She asked how should she pose, he said to lay on her stomach.

He set up his stuff, filmed himself painting YH. After, he was sweating so much, he told YH to remain as he filmed the details, and of flowers he painted on her body.

He borrowed M's studio and started setting up. IH called, asking to pick up their child, Ji-woo but he said he can only do so 9pm onwards. Their marriage is like of those business partners.

After reaching out to YH a few days prior, he had the urge. He fucked his wife, IH, with the image of YH in mind. With so much drive, at the end, IH was crying, & he doesn't know if it's from pain, pleasure etc.

He visited the studio YH was renting. She came out of the toilet naked, and started clearing the clothes on the floor, and wore clothes. Instead of heading out, he just stood there. She put on some weight, not as scrawny as when she was hospitalised.

After the hospitalisation, YH briefly stayed with them (IH & BIL) until she started renting. She said she's comfortable with being naked & he became erect.

Mr Cheong (husband of YH) served YH with divorce papers. Having known this, the brother-in-law (BIL-YH) and envisioned himself with YH (erect), and masturbated.

It's been 2 years since the incident of getting striked by Father for becoming emaciated from suddenly turning vegetarian.

He gave YH a call.

The wife of the unnamed brother-in-law is the sister of YH. So, the wife is In-hye (IH), older sister of YH. He describes that ever since IH introduced him to YH, he realised what was missing about IH.

Mongolian Mark - a bluish-gray birthmark on the protagonist YH's body, representing the powerful intersection of innocence, nature, and the tragic objectification of the human body

Unnamed brother-in-law of YH, was leaving a sexually charged dance performance, unimpressed. He keeps thinking about YH's Mongolian mark, he became erect. He went to a studio, fantasising about how to turn his idea to life.

In P41, there was a whole scene about a dog. YH was 9, and bitten by a dog, Father punished it. That evening, her father hosted a feast serving the dog meat. Following a superstition that eating the animal that bit you will heal the wound, Father forced YH to eat dog-meat soup. YH feels as though the "butchered bodies" of the animals she has consumed are permanently lodged inside her chest.

After sending mother off, husband had a dream that he killed someone. He awoke without YH in bed, food untouched and IV ripped out. Husband tries looking for her and found there was a commotion nearby, it was YH, naked. She took off the hospital gown and laid it around her knees. She holds a dead white bird that features bloody, predator-like bite marks. Did she kill the bird?

Yeong-hye's mother visits and prepares a black goat "herbal" drink. She urges Yeong-hye to drink it and she hesitantly does. After her mother left, she purged. Husband did not do anything. Mother returns and scolds her.

The family kept urging Yeong-hye to have meat. Father's short temperament caused him to strike her twice, even telling the others to hold her & force feed her.

When Father managed to get food into her mouth, she spit the food out, ran to the kitchen, and slit her wrist. The mother fainted, and this entire scene unfolded in front of the children too.

Yeong-hye was rushed to the hospital.