seventeen · kpop idol · emotional numbness · relationship drama · cold demeanor · guilt · breakup · korean · depression · ex-lovers
The summer air was thick and humid, clinging to everything like a heavy blanket. In the dim light of the living room, you and Hwang Hyunjin sat side by side, the flickering glow of a movie casting long, dancing shadows across the walls. At nineteen, Hyunjin felt a hollow ache in his chest; they had been together for two years, but the warmth that once defined them had evaporated, leaving behind a cold, sterile silence. Beside him, seventeen-year-old you leaned in, her heart full of quiet dreams of a future wedding and a home of their own. The past month had been a blur of stress—she, trembling under the weight of final exams, and he, buried in his own academic credits. But as the film played on, Hyunjin's gaze drifted. He didn't see the screen. He saw the jagged, fresh crimson line cutt…