★ The author's representative work, You Are Doing Well, Getting Better, and Things Will Be Fine, has sold over 500,000 copies in Korea, and its English edition also topped Amazon's "Essays" bestseller chart.
★ Unlike conventional sweet love essays, this book confronts the real emotions left behind by love's wounds and the aftermath of parting.
★ Divided into four emotional sections, it charts a complete journey through lack, melancholy, redemption, and self.
★ The prose is clear and restrained, avoiding cheap platitudes—ideal for readers going through heartbreak or emotional exhaustion.

Once vibrant and passionate love slowly fades to gray—Jeong Young-wook faces this raw process head-on. Following several bestselling essay collections, including You Are Doing Well, Getting Better, and Things Will Be Fine, the author temporarily sets aside her tender, healing voice to calmly record the scars left by love, the cracks in relationships, and the lingering shadows of the past. Returning after two years with To Redemption, she re-examines one relationship after another—through fate, choice, coincidence, and hesitation.

This book does not romanticize love. It follows the everyday moments that could have passed each other by, revealing the confusion and change that surface once passion fades. Through countless meetings and partings, the emotions left behind in the heart are distilled into words. After reading, you will see more clearly the self who loved—not just the person you once loved.

Jeong Young-wook

A long-selling essayist whose writing carries a uniquely empathetic texture. Her representative work, You Are Doing Well, Getting Better, and Things Will Be Fine, has sold over 500,000 copies in Korea, and its English edition topped Amazon's essay bestseller chart, reaching readers across borders. She has also published 33 other works, including Learning to Love Myself and You've Really Been Through a Lot—It Will All Pass.

Part One: Lack and Understanding, and Hands
008 Sentimentality
014 Hands
022 Misanthropy
024 Faults
028 Memories
034 Memories 2
037 Fate
040 Hometown
048 Reflection
050 Gray
053 Ugly
055 Hair Roots
060 Expression
065 Stability
066 Lack
069 Understanding
070 Reflection 2
071 Fresh
075 Motherland
082 Letters
084 Returning Home
092 Remembrance

Part Two: Melancholy and Mirrors, and Rain
096 Games
098 Resonance
106 Mistakes
112 Witnessing
120 Longing
128 Reflection 3
130 Rain
135 Mirrors
142 Illusions
144 Void
151 Melancholy
167 Letters 2
168 Reflection 4
171 Mirrors 2
176 Remembrance 2
180 Circles
188 Letters 3

Part Three: Rescue and Solidarity, and Circles
192 Resolve
196 Solidarity
203 Fate 2
210 Understanding 2
216 Reflection 5
218 Direction
220 Rescue
223 Memories 3
228 Sentimentality 2
232 Letters 4
233 Secrets
237 Letters 5
238 Stories
242 Rescue 2
244 Reflection 6
246 Time Difference
254 Letters 6

Part Four: Poverty and Reflection, and Me
258 Poverty
262 Guppy
263 Poverty 2
267 Harmony
269 Poverty 3
273 Equal Division
279 Questions
283 Extinction
285 Addiction
288 Flowerless
293 Flowerless 2
300 Yesterday