[Book 1] When pessimistic Raki got off a train in a foreign town, she expected nothing but a usual experience, the day to pass by in a normal pace, yet in a subtly romantic way, Jeonghan deliberately made himself exist in her life. It was only just a day, a day when she felt like there was something more to life than what she had initially believed, a day when almost all her insights about love were shaken - and for the record, it was a day enough to fall for someone as sophisticated as him. People come and go, and he just proved it to her even more when he left - without saying anything, he just disappeared. In the course of time, there he was again, existing in her life, confusing her of her own feelings which she knew that right when it happened, she already threw herself to a pit. It wasn't the idea of falling in love with him that made it a crisis for her, it was him, his outlook, his offers, his way of steering his conflicts, his subtle gestures and all his lies.

An easy life? No one has that, but Somin clearly hasn't had one. "I can't hear you." She paused a little to adjust and straighten herself, as if it would boost her confident, then added, "I'm deaf." Not a big deal, right? At least, that's what she used to think since kid. But her twenties will teach her otherwise. She'll endure things no one should ever face, losing herself along the way. Waking up in the house of an unknown man? It can happen. But he's a K-pop idol, whose fame feels like a gilded cage. No word from her adoptive father. Why? Was she abandoned? Again? She'll face trauma, betrayal, and love... Well maybe, but one thing is certain: she will grow through it all. Between silence and communication, between growth and forgiveness, between love and loss, lies a delicate truth, a journey that reveals the beauty of existence within the space between.

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