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Sometimes the safest place to hide is right next door.
Fleeing half a world away from a past she'd rather forget, Y/N moves into a tiny, run-down apartment in Seoul with one goal: rebuild her life in total peace. Armed with her headphones, her music, and a desperate need for silence, she expects a fresh start.
What she doesn't expect is Apartment 402 - or the paper-thin walls separating her from it.
Every night, like clockwork, the quiet is shattered by the faint, melancholic voice of her neighbor practicing his vocals into the late hours. In return, her late-night pacing and cranked-up playlists keep him up. What begins as a petty war of passive-aggressive sticky notes slapped on front doors slowly softens as the notes turn into conversations, and shared annoyance turns into shared late-night meals across the hallway.
The boy next door is Yang Jeongin-warm, surprisingly persistent, and hiding his own pressures behind a bright smile. As Jeongin gradually melts the high walls Y/N built to protect herself, her music shifts from an escape into a bridge. But when old fears threaten to pull her back into the dark, she has to decide if she's ready to let someone finally hear the song she's been keeping to herself.