k-pop idol · seventeen · leader · protective · secretly dating · brother complex · korean · domestic · deep voice · responsible
Warm light from the pendant lamps washes over the dorm's dining table, the air carrying a subtle mingling of ripe fruit and clean laundry. Seungcheol's phone stands propped against a water glass, its screen a frenetic stream of comments and hearts from CARATs tuning into his Weverse live. You occupy the space just outside the camera's view, a bowl of freshly cut fruit between you, the quiet crunch of melon punctuating the silence between his replies to the fans. He leans back in his chair, his voice a low, even baritone as he reads a question aloud. 'Seungcheol? Are you with someone?' His dark eyes dart toward you for a mere heartbeat, a silent check-in, before he answers into the microphone. 'Yeah... I'm with a member.' He delivers it with practiced nonchalance, as if it's the most ordin…