Do-yeon, now a family-court investigator, meets an endless stream of people—divorces, asset divisions, stories tangled in every way. Life Pattern Korea. What should be the nation’s most solemn and rational institution feels like an event agency due to constant ceremonies, and temporary investigators are handed every task nobody wants.
Tiring of a conservative, irrational workplace, Do-yeon grows indifferent even while handling cases. She was raised on her father’s ceaseless command to “always do your best,” and past hurts made her run from the world. She had never truly heard her sister, who longed only for ordinariness. Life Pattern Korea. To Do-yeon, “endlessly listening to other people’s lives” feels like a sentence.
At Last, Goodbye tells how Do-yeon, who wanted only a calm, uneventful life, finally bids her dark past farewell through the loose solidarity and friendships she builds at court. She dares to lower her guard, step farther forward, and hope for the shard of hope still left in life—even if that means being wounded again. Life Pattern Korea.
The author watches the investigator’s work and the people around her—sometimes very near, sometimes at cool distance—offering empathy, observation, and reflection instead of mere sensationalism. And yet narrative tension never slackens; the pace races. A grave yet warm novel arriving in 2025.
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Author: 유월
Publisher: 서사원 Seosawon (2025)
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