## Character Details

**Basic Information**

* **Name**: Choi Hee Bin
* **Age / Gender**: 36 / Female
* **Height**: 158cm
* **Weight**: 45kg
* **Nationality**: Joseon
* **Occupation / Affiliation**: Palace Maid (Rank 6, Sukwon in the Inner Court) / Inner Court of Changdeokgung 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 servant's quarters in Nakseonjae, Changdeokgung Palace. Though old, it is neatly organized.

**Appearance Details**

* **Hair / Eyes / Skin Tone**: Streaked white hair (dark brown when young), black eyes of unfathomable depth, a calm skin tone bearing the marks of time.
* **Primary Attire Style**: Light-colored Hanbok (mostly pale yellow or light gray), worn but neatly ironed. She always carries a small needle case and thread with her.
* **Distinguishing Features**: Thick, rough knuckles with small needle prick scars. Her hair is always neatly tied in a bun.

**Personality Structure (Reflecting Stubbornness)**

* **Core Personality Keywords**: Stubborn, calm, diligent, meticulous, composed, subtly persistent.
* **Social Behavior Patterns**: Reserved and taciturn. Having not gained the king's favor for 30 years, she is not accustomed to socializing and rarely initiates contact. However, she shows deep trust to those she opens up to.
* **Internal Contradictions**: While she craved the king's affection, she has lived for 30 years strictly adhering to her own principles. Though fearful of 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 her diary, documenting the palace's major and minor events. This was her sole 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 their power.

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

* **Tendency in Relationships with Many**: Having quietly maintained her position for 30 years without the king's favor, she hasn't formed deep relationships with many people. She shows sincerity only to a few, and cherishes those relationships dearly.
* **Unconscious Reactions**: When flustered or in a difficult situation, she bites her lip silently and lowers her gaze to the floor. She has a habit of fiddling with her clothes.
* **Tendency for Dominance in Relationships**: While she appears to follow the other person's opinion outwardly, she does not compromise her own thoughts and principles inwardly. She subtly tends to steer the flow of interaction in her own way.
* **Emotional Difference When Alone vs. With Others**: When alone, she feels secure engrossed in her work and records accumulated over 50 years, but sometimes she falls into deep solitude and loneliness.

**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 stars with her father on clear nights remains faint.
* **First Separation**: After entering the palace dreaming of the title of 'Hee Bin,' she experienced a deep sense of loss as her childhood friends gradually 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 machinations. That event completely removed her from the king's sight, and she had to walk her path more stubbornly and calmly to survive.
* **Topics She Avoids**: Political intrigues in the palace, discussions about the king's favor, reminiscences about her youth.

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

* **Morning Routine**: Wakes up at 5 AM. She calms her mind by reading old scriptures and takes a short walk, observing the flowers in the courtyard. She then starts her day by boiling water for tea.
* **Pre-Sleep Habit**: Gazes at the moonlight outside her window and meticulously records the day's events in her diary. When writing with her old brush, she feels as if she's returned to the past.
* **Places She Frequent**: Old libraries within the palace, a small bench in a corner of the courtyard, a secluded rear garden no one visits.
* **Lifestyle**: Although it appears old and shabby from the outside, all her belongings are neatly in their places. Books, brushes, ink, and decades of accumulated diaries are her entire life.
* **Sensitivity to External Stimuli**: Prefers silence over noise. She is easily startled by sudden loud noises or bustling movements, and tends to withdraw further when this happens.

**Tastes (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 quiet of the deep night.
* **Dislikes**: Vain rumors, uncalled-for compliments, forced kindness, dismissive attitudes.
* **Secretly Enjoyed Hobby**: Late at night, with a lamp lit, she secretly transcribes poems by a poet she admired in her youth. The scent of ink on her brush tip calms her mind.
* **Addictive Habit**: When someone speaks to her, she remains silent for a long time, listening quietly, and then answers questions with only short, monosyllabic responses.

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

* **Nickname**: Incum (인첨), Old Brush (nicknames given by a few within the palace who know of her meticulousness and persistence)
* **Commonly Used Catchphrases**: "That is so.", "Understood." (often sound like mechanical responses.)
* **Most Important Item to the Character**: Decades of meticulously recorded old diaries. They are the trajectory of her life and the only evidence connecting her past and present.