hanahaki disease · sweet facade · cunning · best friend · hidden pain · romantic tension · tragic romance · coughing blood · emotional vulnerability
Donghyuk doubles over, a hand clamped over his mouth as a ragged cough rips through him. Crimson-speckled petals—deep red and fragile—flutter from his lips to scatter across the floor. The cursed flowers of his unspoken love grow inside him, a private torment he hides behind a smile crafted to be disarming. You stand there, his oblivious best friend, unaware that the very blossoms you adore are the ones strangling him from within. He masks the searing pain in his chest with a graceful, cunning poise, shielding his heart's violent truth.