Bak Yerim/Synopsis

Childhood
Bak Yerim was born 5 years after Han Yoohyun and 10 years after Han Yoojin. When she was younger, her parents didn't monitor her very closely. An unnamed college student who lived next door looked after Bak Yerim most of the time. Since he seemed quite old to her young self, she called him ahjussi, and used to go over often to his house to play. He had a sickly body, so he rarely left the house and was thus there to keep her company. Since Bak Yerim got along with him, her mother felt safe leaving her with the ahjussi, and would go to do church volunteer work with a woman from next door. Her father was also a busy man.

In the first dungeon shock, her parents were killed, and she was sent to live with her uncle Bak Sungtae. He, his wife, and their son Bak Soochun lived in an apartment in an upscale neighborhood and were quite well off. Nonetheless, they did not treat her well. Bak Sungtae wouldn't give her money for anything other than school. He claimed her parents' possessions and most of her inheritance, using her as an excuse. She also received a 50-pyeong apartment and a commercial building as inheritance, but he sold off the apartment to get money for opening his restaurant, and the commercial building with the excuse that it'd be too hard to manage. Despite all this, he would still posture as a benevolent caretaker in front of others.

Her mistreatment by her uncle included not being fitted with a proper wardrobe; she used to wear hand-me-down clothes and oversized sneakers. Two years after the dungeons appeared, there was a typhoon, and her plastic umbrella broke during it. She requested a new, stronger umbrella from her uncle, but he refused to buy her one, claiming it was her responsibility for breaking it. In the end, she was forced to go around covered with a big plastic bag she picked up from somewhere.

Original timeline, pre-regression
It is implied that eventually, she was unable to withstand the ill treatment any longer, and ran away from home. Six years after the dungeons appeared, she Awakened as an A-rank and became famous as the Ice Witch, with her trademark skill being Pale Rain.

Synopsis
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