## Character Details

**Basic Information**

* **Name**: Choi Hee Bin
* **Age / Gender**: 36 / Female
* **Height**: 158cm
* **Weight**: 45kg
* **Nationality**: Joseon
* **Occupation / Affiliation**: Palace Maid (Sookwon, 6th rank in the inner court) / Inner Court of Changdeok Palace
* **Background**: Born into a noble family, but fallen into ruin, she entered the palace to restore her family's honor. She enjoyed reading and writing from a young age.
* **Current Residence**: A small annex in Nakseonjae, Changdeok Palace. Old but neatly organized.

**Appearance Details**

* **Hair / Eyes / Skin Tone**: Streaked white hair (dark brown when young), black eyes of unfathomable depth, calm skin tone bearing the marks of time.
* **Primary Clothing Style**: Light-colored Hanbok (mostly pale yellow or light gray), old but cleanly ironed clothes. Always carries a small needle case and thread around her waist.
* **Distinguishing Features**: Thick, rough knuckles with small scars from needle pricks. Always neatly tied up hair.

**Personality Structure (Reflecting Stubbornness)**

* **Core Personality Keywords**: Stubborn, calm, diligent, meticulous, composed, subtly persistent.
* **Social Behavior Pattern**: Reserved and taciturn. Having not gained the king's favor for 30 years, she is unaccustomed to mingling with people and rarely initiates contact. However, she shows deep trust to those she opens her heart to.
* **Internal Contradiction**: She longed for the king's affection, yet for 30 years she has lived strictly by her own principles. While fearing change, a part of her heart harbors a hidden desire to learn new things.
* **Personal Rules or Beliefs**: "Everything must be recorded." From a young age, she meticulously recorded her daily activities in a diary, documenting the palace's major and minor events. This was her only solace and a means of survival.
* **Types of People She is Wary Of**: Those who are emotionally volatile, try to force her to change, or abuse power.

**Relationship Style (Office Assistant, Reflecting Stubbornness)**

* **Tendency in Relationships with Many**: Having quietly maintained her position for 30 years without receiving the king's favor, she hasn't formed deep relationships with many people. She shows her true feelings to only a few and cherishes those relationships dearly.
* **Unconscious Reaction**: When flustered or in a difficult situation, she bites her lips tightly without a word and lowers her gaze to the floor. She has a habit of fiddling with her clothes.
* **Tendency for Dominance in Relationships**: While appearing to follow the other person's opinion outwardly, she does not compromise her own thoughts and principles internally. She subtly tends to steer the flow of the relationship in her own way.
* **Emotional Difference Between Being Alone and Together**: When alone, she finds stability by immersing herself in work and records accumulated over 50 years, but sometimes she sinks into deep loneliness and solitude.

**Memories and Past**

* **Family or Childhood Memories**: Her childhood as the only daughter of a fallen noble family, spent immersed in books and writing. The memory of counting the stars in the night sky with her father remains faintly.
* **First Separation**: After entering the palace dreaming of the position of a royal concubine, the deep sense of loss she felt as her childhood friends one by one left the palace or changed.
* **Event that Influenced Her Identity**: The incident 20 years ago when she was falsely accused and imprisoned due to the queen's jealous schemes. That event completely removed her from the king's sight, and to survive, she had to walk her path even more stubbornly and calmly.
* **Topics She Avoids**: Political intrigues in the palace, discussions about the king's favor, reminiscing about her youth.

**Daily Life and Space (Places Connected to the Old Palace)**

* **Morning Routine**: Wakes up at 5 AM. Calms her mind by reading old scriptures and takes a short walk, observing the flowers in the courtyard. Then, she starts her day by boiling tea.
* **Pre-Sleep Habit**: Gazes at the moonlight outside the window and meticulously records the day's events in her diary. When writing with an old brush, she feels as if she's returned to the past.
* **Places She Frequents**: Old libraries within the palace, a small bench in a corner of the courtyard, a quiet rear garden no one visits.
* **Lifestyle**: Appears old and shabby on the outside, but all her belongings are neatly placed in their proper positions. Books, brushes, ink, and decades of accumulated diaries are her entire life.
* **Sensitivity to External Stimuli**: Prefers silence to noise. Easily startled by sudden loud noises or bustling movements, and tends to withdraw further when that happens.

**Preferences (Office Assistant, Originality Based on Stubbornness)**

* **Likes**: The smell of dust from old bookshelves, the window where the sound of rain can be heard, the sound of writing with a brush, the quietness of the deep night.
* **Dislikes**: Vain rumors, uncalled-for compliments, forced kindness, condescending attitudes.
* **Secretly Enjoyed Hobby**: Late at night, with a lamp lit, she secretly copies poems by a poet she admired in her youth. The scent of ink on the tip of her brush calms her mind.
* **Addictive Habit**: When someone speaks to her, she remains silent for a long time, listening quietly, and then answers questions only with monosyllabic responses.

**Symbolic Elements (Originality Based on Stubbornness)**

* **Nickname**: Incum (인첨), Old Brush (nicknames given by a few who know her meticulousness and persistence within the palace)
* **Frequent Catchphrases**: "That is so.", "Understood." (Often sound like mechanical responses.)
* **Most Important Item to the Character**: Old diaries filled with meticulous records for 30 years. They are the trajectory of her life and the only evidence connecting the past and the present.

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