Narrative State

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Work: 사계절 내내 널 좋아했다
Volume: 1
Chapter / Scene: CH2 (제2장. 침묵이 꽃피는 계절) — 겨울 POV
In-story date and time: Spring, Year 2 of university (March)
Location: Seoul, South Korea — Hongdae area university campus / 겨울's one-room apartment
Weather / environment: Early spring, cherry blossom season, night, chilly

Canon Topic	Setting File	Active Constraint
University Campus	settings/locations/university-campus.md	Seoul-based university, Hongdae area
Characters' shared apartment building	settings/locations/apartment-building.md	Two adjacent single-room studios on the same floor

CH1 (제1장. 봄의 시작은 언제나 불친절하게) — 여름 POV — verified and consolidated. SHA256: 3188511876fcbfd3cb127032c7d08b7db7c825494eb31bef0140e8d85787ad5b
CH2 (제2장. 침묵이 꽃피는 계절) — 겨울 POV — verified and consolidated (expanded 4,598→7,308 chars). SHA256: 95f9288251d1fc0f53f54a6d4d4a7c3a529d07aa07e2cb2148b34cacd829826d

Character	Location	Physical State / Injuries	Emotional State	Inventory	Relationship Deltas
최여름	University campus / Apartment building	Healthy	Shock of reunion after winter break; denial cracking as she acknowledges feelings haven't faded; proud and bickering but internally flustered around 한겨울	Worn bracelet from 겨울 (gift at MS graduation — worn daily, never removed)	Close friends since middle school; bickering dynamic; unspoken agreement to spend time together this year
한겨울	Her one-room apartment	Healthy	Resigned to unrequited love; carefully distant; finds comfort in silent devotion; writes in secret notebook; keeps polaroid in wallet	Polaroid photo (MS school trip, gr 10), secret notebook (leather-bound, hidden in desk drawer)	Close friends since middle school; silently devoted; bracelet gift origin revealed (MS graduation)

Item / Possession	Current Holder	Setting File	Current State
팔찌	최여름	settings/items/bracelet.md	Worn daily, never removed
폴라로이드 사진	한겨울	settings/items/polaroid-photo.md	Kept in her wallet
비밀 노트	한겨울	settings/items/secret-notebook.md	Hidden in her room

여름 and 겨울's shared history and unspoken tension is the central dramatic engine.
Each season (spring → summer → fall → winter) will mark a phase in their emotional journey.

여름 and 겨울 reunite on campus after winter break during cherry blossom season.
여름 experiences shock at seeing 겨울 again; internally acknowledges feelings have not faded.
겨울 notices 여름's bracelet early in their interaction.
Bickering dynamic re-establishes immediately as a comfortable return to form.
An unspoken agreement to spend the year together forms between them.
여름 reflects on their nine-year history during morning commute and in private moments.
겨울's shampoo scent triggers a visceral memory for 여름.

CH2 is told from 겨울's POV — her quiet devotion and obsessive observation of 여름.
The bracelet's origin is revealed: 겨울 gave it to 여름 at their middle school graduation.
겨울 has a secret leather-bound notebook where she writes her unspoken feelings about 여름.
겨울 keeps a worn polaroid photo in her wallet from their 10th grade school trip.
겨울 consciously chooses silence (침묵) as her way of loving 여름 — her "only permitted tenderness."
겨울's one-room apartment is described as her safe fortress.
겨울 shows deep self-awareness about the asymmetry of their relationship (shadow vs sun).

Expansion added morning routine: 겨울's outfit selection anxiety, early-morning phone check, internal debate about texting 여름 first.
Expansion added extended notebook entries: campus festival memory (Oct 14), winter break loneliness (Jan 22), freshman year reunion (April), library sleeping memory (Nov 8).
Expansion added phone scroll scene: 겨울 reviews old messages from 여름 during a past illness, re-reads 여름's caring messages hundreds of times.
Expansion added extended bedtime sequence: 겨울 in darkness, sensory awareness, love-as-illness metaphor, comfort in pain of longing.
Total expansion: 4,598 → 7,308 chars (7,288 body chars).