Jungwon has one job: keep six chaotic idiots alive, on schedule, and out of the news. He is failing spectacularly. Between disappearing snacks, 3am group chat meltdowns, mystery stains no one will claim, and someone always "five minutes away" from a schedule they're already late for, being leader feels less like a title and more like a hostage situation. This is not a story about romance, plot twists, or character development. This is seven boys, one dorm, and a leader slowly losing his mind trying to keep it all from falling apart.

One summer night, Sunoo follows a firefly into the woods and steps through an ancient torii gate into a world meant for spirits, not humans. There, he meets Yuna - a silver-haired fox spirit who seems to know more about him than she should. But what happens when the spirit realm refuses to let him go?

Yang Jungwon has everything a young man could want, prestige, a brilliant academic future, and a family who never accepts less than perfect. Han Sowon has almost nothing. Battling a chronic illness that sets her apart from everyone else, she moves through life quietly, surviving more than living. They were never meant to fall in love. But in the stillness of study halls, between glances in the classroom, and in the brief moments no one else noticed, they did. It was soft. Gentle. Real. Yet the world around them didn't agree, pressuring them apart, labeling their love as dangerous, foolish, impossible. As Jungwon's life is shaped for him, a marriage, a future, a success story, Sowon disappears like a shadow, leaving only silence where love once lived. Torn between duty and heart, expectation and truth, Jungwon is forced to choose, follow the path built for him, or risk everything for the one person the world told him not to love. They Said We Shouldn't is a story about the love that comes quietly, fights silently, and lingers long after the last kiss. A love that was never allowed to bloom, yet bloomed anyway.

❝ i love you in every universe. ❞ in the middle of the ocean is where lies a portal to an alternative world. will they meet again? + parallel universe au + time travel + fluff / angst ? + short story COMPLETED | © 2024

- the world is small, but what eunseo didn't expect was that it was small enough to bump into her childhood best friend who had became the ceo of the company she was working with

- HIGHEST RANKINGS: #1 #NIKI, #1 #ENHYPEN, #1 #NIKINISHIMURA | he had to look for someone, whereas she wasn't looking for anyone - one day she left her cherry-coloured lipstick print on his glass, and he was intrigued.

Seven men. One choice. Hayoon was in for a good one...

Sim Jake waved at you. Sim Jake sent you a message. Sim Jake: I heard you like me? Wherein popular Jake got a word that someone likes him from the famous all girls school in Incheon. - Completed