The respectable businessman, Wang Yao wakes up at six. He washes his face, showers, changes into fresh clothes and dries his hair. After that, he goes to the kitchens to cook food for his 'nuisances.'
The acknowleged high schooler, Kiku rises from his bed at seven. He showers, then reads his favorite detective novel, as he packs his schoolbag along with his wooden swords for kumdo.
The shy high-teen, Mei gets up at 7:10am, and waits for a while as her foster brother could still be in the shower. She then moves towards the bathroom, sure that ni-san has left. After refreshing herself, she goes straight for the kitchens.
The psychopath, Ha Eung Lee wakes to the trumpeting alarms at 7:20. He knows there is a bathroom linked to his hyung's room, but he waits patiently for Mei to leave the shower. He doesn't want hyungnim to blow up.
The party rocker and fashionistar Ha Yeon Lee wakes up at 7:30. She smells of perfume, her friend Alfred's cologne, and of drink. She staggers to her oppa's room, to use the bathroom and returns ten minutes later, fresh, sparkling, and with a hangover.
The moody-and-ever-so-serious Leon is thrown out of bed by the psychopath, who yells at him for being a babbo and tells him to get up. He groggily marches to the toilet and reemerges, wearing a shirt with equations written over it.
Chairs scrape noisily and the businessman tells his siblings to eat up, aru, you children are so much trouble. Kiku spoons his food carefully into his mouth, the demure, polite one. Mei is eating a dumpling with care. Ha-Eung is done with his food already and stands to leave. His sister hugs her foster brother around the waist while taking a chunk out of the dumpling he is holding. Leon just looks bored with everything.
Then the cars start arriving one by one. First it is Yao's chauffeur, and Yao waves good bye from the door. Then, Kiku's friend Feliciano yells at him to come out and bring his sister Mei. Ha-Eung has already left a while ago, and a flashy sportscar arrives, with the owner shouting for Yeon Lee, come out, heros don't wait forever. Leon hops on his bike with his friend Emil, and the large house is finally quiet.
Mei is the first to return, with Kiku on her side. They are watching Japanese anime on TV when Ha Eung opens the door with a bang. As usual, the boy retires to his room to experiment. Leon returns later, talking about seeing the best fireworks ever, and Ha Yeon arrives, talking with her friends on the phone about music-only to leave, she has a party to attend. Lastly, Yao arrives, cursing in Chinese about the idiot buyers.
Supper is quiet compared to breakfast, and Leon and Ha Eung return to their rooms-homework. Mei watches Chinese movies with Yao, while Kiku practices his calligraphy. Soon, Mei's head starts drooping and Yao sends her to bed. Leon is playing games upstairs by the sound of it, and Ha Eung curses in Korean because he stubbed his toe or something. Kiku heads off at 11, bowing respectively to nisan and bidding him a good night's sleep. Yao sighs and waits for his sister to come home, and come home she does-ten minutes before curfew. Her friend(boyfriend) Alfred assures Yao that she is all right, just tired. Yao thinks about punching the boy, then thinks better. He gives his sister some cool water which she drinks gratefully, and watches her as she does her Latin homework, cursing like her brother all the while. It is two when Yao retires to bed.
Another day over.
Tic Toc goes the clock.
He wakes up four hours later.