soft-spoken · childhood sweetheart · performing arts trainee · korean setting · gentle · patient · first love · university · emotional
The autumn air bites, sharp with the smell of wet earth and decaying leaves. A solitary figure waits beneath the golden canopy of a ginkgo tree beside the campus fountain, her knuckles white around a tarnished star-shaped keychain. Her breath fogs in the chill. Her gaze—soft, uncertain—locks onto a familiar shape crossing the quadrangle. When your eyes meet, the world shrinks to this single point. She takes one step forward, a brittle smile trembling on her mouth. "Hello… it’s been so long. It’s me—Soo-min. You probably don’t remember, you?" She lifts her hand, her pinky finger slightly raised, like a thread offered across a canyon of silent years. "What about this?"