DISCONTINUED ✓ ✱⠀𝓢𝒀𝑵𝑶𝑷𝑺𝓘𝑺⠀?! jieun lived by one simple rule: freedom above all else. she didn't follow any other laws or norms, believing they only restricted her. consequences didn't faze her; she felt invincible. so, she lived carefree, disregarding everything else. the sole rule she adhered to? never, under any circumstances, learn karate - a decree passed down from her father through generations. it wasn't until his passing that she dared to defy it. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ O R . . . 𝓲𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝓲𝒄𝒉. the death of her father altered the course of jiji's life, thrusting her into a world of uncertainty and vengeance. finding herself compelled to confront her father's killer, embarking on a journey of struggle and self-discovery. ⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ❝ never underestimate a cycle breaker. ❞ ⠀⠀𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐛𝐲 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐞⠀⠀∝⠀⠀𝐟𝐞𝐦!𝐨𝐜⠀⠀˒⠀⠀𝐬𝟏 - 𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠

✱⠀𝓢𝒀𝑵𝑶𝑷𝑺𝓘𝑺⠀?! delphine montoya grew up in the kind of town that worshipped hockey boys like saints and forgave them like sinners. still, she made herself impossible to ignore. briar university's golden soccer star with glossed lips, bruised knees, and a temper sharp enough to split a room clean down the middle. but when budget cuts begin swallowing women's athletics whole and a multimedia project documenting overlooked college sports brings her first love back onto campus with a camera in his hands and years of unfinished history between them. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ O R . . . 𝓲𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝓲𝒄𝒉. a soccer star finds her carefully controlled world unraveling when her high school sweetheart returns to document overlooked athletes - and forces her back into the orbit of dean di laurentis. ⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ❝ if i can get through the next four minutes and eleven seconds... i'll win. bt that's how losers think. ❞ ⠀⠀𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐝𝐢 𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐬 ⠀⠀∝⠀⠀𝐟𝐞𝐦!𝐨𝐜⠀⠀˒⠀⠀𝐬𝟏 - 𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠

𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐄𝐃 ✓ ✱⠀𝓢𝒀𝑵𝑶𝑷𝑺𝓘𝑺⠀?! to suk yumi, hospitals weren't spaces of healing; they were graveyards waiting for their moment, corridors stretching endlessly like veins, pulsing with the sounds of machines that hummed and beeped and wheezed in a rhythm far too familiar. for years she had worked herself numb to keep her brother breathing, and yet, no matter how much she labored, the debt clung to her like a second skin she couldn't shed. so when the opportunity came to erase it all - it wasn't courage or desperation that made her call. it was the quiet, steely rage of someone who refused to let the world claim her without a fight. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ O R . . . 𝓲𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝓲𝒄𝒉. a girl drowning in debt and resentment, enters a game that promises freedom but demands everything. ⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ❝ sometimes friendship has its own price, higher than you think. so high that it'll cost you your life. ❞ ⠀⠀𝐥𝐞𝐞 𝐦𝐲𝐮𝐧𝐠-𝐠𝐢⠀⠀∝⠀⠀𝐟!𝐨𝐜⠀⠀ ∝⠀⠀𝐬𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐝 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 ⠀⠀˒

𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐄𝐃 ✓ ✱⠀𝓢𝒀𝑵𝑶𝑷𝑺𝓘𝑺⠀?! rose carried fire in her lungs and glitter in her veins; she was radiant, even in her restlessness, and when the baby came, bo fell in love twice over: once with the tiny weight of a life, and once again with the woman who would not stay. but dreams have a texture, a weight, and hers were made of film reels and marquee lights and the hush just before a scene begins. she carried the baby's scent in the fold of her coat and bo's silence in the pit of her stomach, and she walked until the road blurred behind her, until she was no longer a mother, a partner, a girl from anywhere - but just rose, becoming. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ O R . . . 𝓲𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝓲𝒄𝒉. she loved bo with a quiet, aching tenderness, but she loved the life she hadn't lived more, so when the road called, she left him standing in the heat, carrying only his silence and the sorrow of what staying would've taken from her. ⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ❝ life is precious. let's love with no regrets while we're alive. ❞ ⠀⠀𝐛𝐨 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐰 ⠀⠀∝⠀⠀𝐟𝐞𝐦!𝐨𝐜⠀⠀˒⠀⠀𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠