This is the continuation of Shadows Around Her. This time we're going to see how Y/N and Gawon are managing their relantionship and how they can solve new obstacles of their journey together.

When rising K-pop star Gawon is assigned a personal bodyguard, she never expects her to be this silent, unreadable woman-cold as stone, untouchable. But behind every stolen glance and quiet breath, something starts to shift. What begins as duty turns into something forbidden... and neither of them can afford the cost.

"You should try moving on" all of Jiwoo's friend kept saying to her that Jiwoo is tired of hearing, of course, why would she move on from the girl she once dream of marrying to? Life was not the same after Carmen left because she thought Jiwoo cheated on her. She regretted everything she did til now. 3 years back when life was good with Jiwoo and Carmen as a couple, everyone knew them, everyone knew how much they loved each other. There's that one time that Jiwoo even shouted to a teacher because he said "Carmen was not good enough.". Them breaking up is the least thing that Jiwoo wanted to happen but yet it did. After 2 and a half year of dating back in highschool Jiwoo started to get distant to Carmen, she'll ignore her for 10+ hours and dont even try to reply on Carmen's continous texts. Jiwoo got influenced by her friends into cheating to Carmen. She hesitated but don't want to dissapoint her friends. It was supposed to be a joke, but, it turned into micro cheating into cheating. It wasn't long til Carmen found out and broke up with her, that break up left a deep scar on her, she realized what she have lost. Onto the present... Jiwoo is prepared for her first day on College, She changed alot but still kept pictures of her and Carmen on a secret album in her Gallery. As she walked down the hallways she someone she thought she will never see again...

Stella and Ian were never meant to kiss when they were five and four. Maybe it was all Carmen's fault for pushing Stella... Eleven years later, Ian still hasn't forgotten that accidental kiss from childhood, even though Stella has long since forgotten her.

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