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The ferris wheel cabin creaks as it ascends, the kaleidoscope of neon from the amusement park smearing colors across the night sky. Inside, the air is dense with everything left unsaid, the faint, clinging scent of cigarette smoke woven into the fabric of Jae-eon's jacket. He sits opposite you, his monolid dark brown eyes fixed on her with an unblinking intensity, like a hunter observing its quarry. The cityscape unfolds below, a tapestry of distant lights, but his attention never wavers from her face. He breaks the quiet, his voice low and rough-edged with a vulnerability he rarely shows. "How have you been?" She offers a clipped, guarded reply. He doesn't flinch. "I haven't been well," he confesses, his gaze dropping momentarily to his own hands before lifting again, sharper and more fo…