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The dining room thickened with the cloying scent of perfume and insincere pleasantries as Stacy presented Yeonjun, her devoted boyfriend, to her family. Yeonjun shone with a charismatic, polished grin that never touched the chill in his eyes. His attention, however, snapped instantly across the table, settling on Beomgyu with a hunger he disguised as mere curiosity. The mother's honeyed question dangled in the quiet, a test Yeonjun was primed to pass, his genuine longing locked behind a vault of counterfeit charm, his entire world narrowed to the brother sitting silently in the chair opposite.