Prologue_Folded Page: 'Bunker 1983'

Chapter 1: Human Book Jo Gi-jun
Chapter 1: The Boy in the Closet, Winter 1983

Chapter 2: Digital Laundry 'The Laundry'
Chapter 2: The Boy Outside the Closet, Spring 1984

Chapter 3: Everyone has a closet they want to get out of.
Chapter 3: The Boy Who Chased Goosebumps, Summer 1984

Chapter 4 The Most Blessed of the Damned
Chapter 4: The Boy Who Got Goosebumps, Summer 1985

Chapter 5 First-Person Observer Point of View
Chapter 5: The Sealed Boy, Fall 1993

Chapter 6: Open Pages: Escape Room Level Up Guide

Epilogue_Torn Page: The Boy in the Closet Again
Author's Note

“Meeting Anna.
“I will be the most blessed of the cursed children.”
A boy isolated for ten years with rumors of war,
And now that he's grown up, he's revealing a secret

"The Most Blessed of the Damned" begins with a relatively refreshing curse.
Woo-sik, who was asked the absurd question, “Are you cursed?” by an elementary school student he had never met before, after being caught with a bald scalp, is an ordinary adult going through the pandemic era while worrying about hair loss.
His dream is to maintain an income that allows him to pay his utility bills on time and get his teeth scaled once every six months without feeling burdened.
He runs a digital laundry called 'The Laundry' that erases online dark history together with his senior, Tae-gong Mataegong, who worked with him at an appliance repair service center.
Woo-sik, who is like that, is suddenly ordered to self-quarantine three times, and he feels tired of being stuck at home and clearing out the freezer, so he decides to see how others are enduring the quarantine.
What caught his eye at that time was the book “Human Book Jo Gi-jun,” which contained the life story of “Quarantine Expert Jo Gi-jun,” which was posted on the website “Human Book,” a life content subscription service.
Woo-sik, who is curious about Jo Gi-jun's life, which is classified in the lowest price discount book corner despite its timely concept, clicks the request to read button, and Jo Gi-jun approves it, and the two are connected.

In the winter of 1983, someone catches the eye of a boy playing at the playground.
Anna, an unknown woman with an aura surrounding her, is rumored to be a poor actress hiding in the mountains in a nursing home.
In his young eyes, Anna, with her empty eyes unfazed by the commotion around her, looks like the main character of the cartoon “Queen of a Thousand Years.”
If that beautiful woman who receives unfair criticism from the world were my mother… … .
Before he knows it, the boy wishes for Anna to fill the place of his always busy and indifferent mother.
And from one day, when the world was filled with rumors of war, the boy began to live in isolation for an unknown period of time in the safe house in the mountain valley where Anna lived.

The novel progresses through the interplay between the present where Woo-sik lives and the past where Jo-gi-jun lived.
One day, senior Mataegong suddenly disappears and becomes an apple seller driving a truck, unrelated to his previous career, and travels around the country shouting out apologies for unknown reasons. At the start of the war, Jo Gijun, a boy infected with the 'war virus' that kills people, is locked in a closet with a rope tied around his neck and spends 10 years without feeling like he has grown up.
As the chapters of "Human Book Jo Gi-jun" continue, Woo-sik gradually realizes that the stories he believed to be the complete truth are actually half-truths with twists and turns.
What is the real reason that Mataegong, who was diligently running his business, suddenly tours the country and performs an apology to an unspecified number of people? What is the significance of the virus that Jo Gi-jun contracted as a boy? Why are the characters from the 1980s now revealing their buried pasts? What is truth, and where do lies come from? The answers to these questions are gradually revealed through the characters' persistent self-reflection.

“He just chose.
“How to continue living with the consciousness of original sin”
Peace that can only be achieved by hating myself
About those still trapped in the closet

This work, which is both a mystery coming-of-age novel and a contemporary problem novel, does not progress linearly, following the development of events or the passage of time.
Past and present become intertwined, with later statements overturning earlier settings.
By demonstrating that there is no such thing as a 'single objective statement' in describing life, it implies that its contents are always subject to distortion and exaggeration according to human needs and desires.
The novel depicts how the actions of Matthew, who willingly sacrificed himself for his daughter who was accused of being the mastermind behind the illegal filming, and Jo Gi-jun, who portrays his past self as a violent child, are not exceptional actions of peculiar characters in the novel, but rather a universal and inevitable way in which humans accept their lives.
Thus, the reader realizes anew the frailty of the human heart, which affirms itself only in a fallen world, and the strange peace that only leads to self-loathing.

Through the novel, the author ultimately wants to reach outside the closet.
“For a while I thought I shouldn’t put this novel out into the world.
The novel's evil imagination, pessimism, and underlying feelings of hatred were already prevalent in the world, so I felt there was no need to unleash more despair and darkness through the story.
But thanks to writing this novel, I was able to step out of the room one by one and tell stories of supporting each other's loneliness in loose solidarity," the author said. "We can speak of blessings even when we are cursed, and we can stand together because we share our flaws."
Through these divisive and multi-layered characters who use hypocrisy as a shield to seek reconciliation with their real lives, readers will be able to sense them within themselves and take a new step forward.
This novel, which depicts 'the fear of evil, the longing for control, and the desire to reach peace in the midst of curse,' is therefore the most interesting escape from the darkness of life.
This is why we are even more excited about the limitless imagination the author will show us about the human mind in the future.

Every time the boy hid in the closet, he hoped that when he opened the closet and came out, the war would be over.
That's what it meant to hide oneself somewhere.
I dream that while I remain still, even if I don't change, the world outside will change into something I want, or even something different from what it is now, even if I can't picture it in detail.
_In the text