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While You Were Sleeping (2017 TV series) still confined Jae-chan, but along with it is a note which she had given to a childhood acquaintance whose father was killed by the same person who killed hers when she was still a teenager. She realizes that Jae-chan was that childhood acquaintance, whose father Police Chief Officer Jung Il-seung (Jang Hyun-sung) was killed by a runaway soldier who also killed her father Nam Chul-doo (Choi Won-young), a bus driver. Thirteen years ago, the deaths of Hong-joo’s father and Jae-chan’s father were given the same funeral, since their deaths happened at the same day and from the same culprit. It