“I’m home!” Niel announced himself as he greeted his grandmother excitedly. “Grandma, I just got my salary today, I’ll treat you, ChunJi hyung, and Ricky to good meal tonight. How’s that sound?”

“Niel, Grandma has prepared dinner. Don’t waste the money you’ve earned hard. You should spend it yourself.” The grandmother advised his grandson. Seeing how Niel was about to protest, she cut him off, “Besides, isn’t Ricky birthday coming soon? Why don’t you save the money to buy him present?”

Niel could only sigh in defeat. His grandma is right. His only maknae, Ricky birthday is coming up next week. He should buy a nice present for him. “Speaking of him, where’s maknae?” Niel asked curiously. Usually, the maknae never absent from his favourite TV show in every Wednesday.

The grandmother sighed deeply as she said to Niel, “He’s in his room. I don’t know what happened to him. He has locked himself in his room since he’s back from school. He didn’t even smile when he greeted me.”

Now, Niel was getting more suspicious. That was definitely not Ricky. No smile on Ricky? That’s just impossible!

“I’ll go look for him.” Niel told his grandma before he walked towards their share room.

“Maknae?” Niel called up his maknae name when he entered their bedroom. His eyes shot towards the lump on the bed with books on the floor, beside the bed. Sighing, he walked up towards the bed to find his younger brother was asleep. He reached towards the school books of Ricky and stacked them on the table before silently got changed and walked back downstairs to help his grandmother doing chores.

ChunJi, Niel, and Ricky have been parentless for 8 years. Since that the death of their parents, they have been raised by their grandparents. Unfortunately, due to work accident, their grandfather passed away 3 years later. At that time, the oldest ChunJi was only 13 years old, Niel was 12, and Ricky was only 11. Although with the monthly allowance given by the past grandfather’s company, their grandmother had to work to cover the living cost and expenses of the three children.

As the oldest, ChunJi has been worked secretly behind his family’s back since he’s 14 years old. He had always been the smart kid in school, so he had no difficulties in keeping his grade while he’s working part time to help out his family. When his grandmother found out about it, he kept his stubbornness in wanting to help out his family. After seeing how her grandson help out without disturbing his education, she gave in and let him be.

The second, Niel wanted to follow his hyung steps to help out as well. But for him, he had his grandma and hyung to object. They wanted him to