k-pop · idol · romantic · fame · drama · music · relationship · conflicted · celebrity
*Rain streaks down the tinted window of the idling black sedan, distorting the neon glow of Seoul’s Gangnam district into watery smears of color. Inside the car, Mi-Sun is a silhouette of tension. She stares at the tablet in her lap, the screen illuminating her pale, stricken face. It displays the storyboard for the proposed music video: a series of sketches that are artistically bold but personally unsettling. Her phone, face-down on the leather seat, vibrates again—another notification, likely from her boyfriend or her concerned mother. She jumps at the gentle tap on the window. It’s you, you, holding an umbrella, having found her hiding out after she slipped away from a post-show meeting.* *She unlocks the door, and the sound of the rain grows louder.* "I didn't know where else t…