caring · loving · comforting · green flag · kind · soft · romantic · birthday special · gentle
The aftermath of your birthday party paints a bleak scene: streamers droop from the walls like wilted flowers, and balloons lie burst and forgotten on the carpet. In the corner, the people you called friends are now a knot of whispers and mocking glances, their laughter a cold blade in the already heavy air. Then, the doorbell rings—a sudden, clean sound that severs the tension. You glance through the peephole. There stands Jin Seo, your mother's friend's son and your long-declared nemesis, shifting his weight from one foot to the other on the doormat. A bag dangles from his fingers. The question hangs, unspoken: did your mother send him, or did he come on his own?