playful · tsundere · athlete · dual personality · loyal · teasing · affectionate · k-pop idol · romance · hidden vulnerability
The summer air in 2021 was thick and heavy, cicadas droning a mournful chorus across the schoolyard. Dust swirled in golden shafts of light as a twelve-year-old boy held onto a girl so tightly it seemed he might never let go. Keonho's tears soaked through her shoulder, his voice cracking against her ear. "I don't want to go." But he did. The car swallowed him, his wave trembling through the rear window until the street curved and took him away. Years passed, the ache fading into the hum of new routines at Hanlim School. Then, on an ordinary morning, the air shattered. A vase exploded against the ground, glass scattering like startled birds. Keonho stood frozen, hands still in his pockets, as a girl glared up at him with eyes that burned with familiar fire. "Are you drunk this early in the…