Shortly after, Ruby killed herself and Miho started dating Hanbin. Miho befriended both of them and started spending all her time with them. Ruby was fabulous and exciting, and she had the kindest and most handsome boyfriend: Hanbin. While in college, she started working for a Korean socialite, Ruby, who owned an art gallery. She grew up in the orphanage with Sujin, but left the small town with a prestigious scholarship to attend SVA in New York City. The fourth chapter is narrated by Miho, who lives with Kyuri in the Color House. Wonna spends most of her time alone, watching the girls upstairs and wishing she could be one of them. After the experience she had growing up with an abusive grandmother who forced her mother out of Wonna’s life, Wonna wants nothing to do with a mother-in-law. She married him mostly because his mother was dead.

She does not love him, but he is a kind and gentle man. She lives on the first floor of the Color House with her husband. Kyuri works as a salon girl so that she can send back money to her widowed mother, but she is unhappy with her life. She lives across the hall from Ara and Sujin with Sujin’s childhood friend, Miho. Ara visits her in the hospital and holds her hand as she cries. Sang, who performs a series of surgeries on Sujin. Kyuri reluctantly gives her a recommendation to see Dr. Sujin has been saving up for surgery because she hates her face and wants to work as a salon girl. Kyuri is incredibly beautiful thanks to the plastic surgery she had done at Cinderella Clinic, the most prestigious plastic surgery clinic in the country. Kyuri is a salon girl at Ajax Salon, an exclusive club in which the best escorts in Korea work. One night, Sujin invites Kyuri over for drinks. Ara was left mute after an incident she refuses to talk about, but she works as a hairstylist, and Sujin works at a nail salon. They moved to Seoul together in order to escape their small-town life, in which they were involved in gangs. Sujin was an orphan at the Loring Center, and Ara was the daughter of poor servants. Her roommate, Sujin, grew up with her in Cheongju. She lives on the fourth floor of the Color House, which is a cheap office-tel in the middle of downtown Seoul.

The novel is told in the present-tense by four rotating narrators who occasionally slip into the past-tense in order to give details about their past. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Cha, Frances.

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