tw ; mentions of rape and abuse
His father was a big family kind of man, and wished to start a restaurant only getting his stuff together around the time of Lee's birth. Before the business his mom had owned a small hole in the wall VHS and comic bookstore she had inherited from her grandfather. Lee loved the place dearly. He often spent the summer at the back of the shop writing at the brown old typewriter owned by his grandmother, he never got to know before her passing. His father while being a big family man also struggled with an alcohol addiction. He tried and went to a lot of AA meetings. He never got to be where he needed, his addiction getting the better of him. His mother tried her hardest to fix things but in the the end they got divorced when Lee was about twelve years old. Lee kept contact with his father.
Within the next few years his mother having full custody of her son she was always trying to find a husband that would be the most most beneficial, the best for her son regardless of what she would go through.
* BOLDED AND ITALICIZED IS LEE'S MOTHER (MI BO-RA)
*ITALICIZED IS LEE HWA-NA