"Thirty is coming. So is the question they never answered. One promise. One year. One chance to choose." At twenty-two, it was supposed to be a joke. A half-laugh, a careless promise made on an ordinary night: If we're still single at thirty, we'll try. No rules. No pressure. No expectations. They never spoke of it again. Seven years later, Pond and Phuwin are adults in every way that matters-steady jobs, separate lives, carefully built routines. They are still best friends. Still each other's constant. Still the first person the other thinks of, even when they pretend not to. When circumstances force them back into the same space, old familiarity turns dangerous. Shared mornings feel too intimate. Soft touches linger too long. Conversations circle around everything they refuse to name. And somewhere between now and thirty, the promise resurfaces-not as a joke, but as a question neither of them knows how to answer. Because this isn't about falling in love. It's about admitting they already did-and deciding whether they're brave enough to risk the one thing they've never lost. Set in the quiet tension of adulthood, Somewhere Before Forever is a slow-burn friends-to-lovers story about timing, restraint, and the kind of love that waits patiently... until it can't anymore.

When shy, clumsy college student Phuwin is suddenly forced into an arranged marriage with Pond Naravit-Thailand's coldest, most dangerous mafia CEO-he thinks it's just for appearances. But behind closed doors, control turns to temptation, threats turn into touches, and fake turns far too real. In a world of power, passion, and secrets, Phuwin has no idea if he's being protected... or possessed. He wanted obedience. What he got was obsession. This marriage wasn't supposed to burn. But it will.

Five years ago, Phuwin disappeared. Not because he was weak. Not because he gave up. But because survival demanded something unforgivable. When his child was born too early - out of love from his boyfriend, his first love - still in highschool, drowning in hospital bills and threatened by men he should never have trusted, Phuwin signed a contract with a club that promised money in exchange for his freedom. It was meant to be temporary. It became a cage. His days belong to Lina - his daughter, his reason to breathe. His nights belong to the contract he cannot break. Five years stretched. And then, he appears. Pond. His first love - his supposed boyfriend, the father of his child which he never knew, the one he thought he lost forever. The one who caused his heart to shatter years ago with a cruel bet. On his birthday. A stupid celebration. A private room. Drunken laughter. "We booked someone for you. Birthday privilege." Pond didn't expect anything. Didn't want anything. And then the door opened. Phuwin stepped inside - composed, distant, professional. He looked at Pond the way he looks at every client. "Happy birthday," he said quietly. The words shattered something in Pond's chest. Because this wasn't a stranger. This was the boy he loved. The one he broke with a cruel bet. The one he's been searching for. The father of a child he never knew existed. "No," Pond said. His friends laughed, confused. "I said no." His voice was calm now. Controlled. Dangerous. "Cancel it." He wasn't refusing the booking. He was refusing to let Phuwin stand there like he belonged to anyone else. Like he belonged here - in a bar. To serve people. Not again. ♪ This story belongs to @EliseInk All the places and scenarios are entirely belonging to my story line. Any resemblance to other stories in purely unintentional and coincidence.

The Sculptor never leaves witnesses alive. Until Phuwin. Now a masked serial killer is obsessed with him and Pond Naravit keeps forcing his way into his life at the exact same time. He is arrogant, persistent and unfairly attractive. Phuwin has no idea they're the same person. Pond plans to keep it that way. Phuwin didn't mean to fall in love with a monster. But the deeper he sinks, the more he wonders if he even wants to escape.

Everyone knows Pond. He's the boy with effortless smile, the one teachers trust and students admire. Born into wealthy, naturally handsome, always surrounded by people. Pond seems like someone who has never had to struggle a day in his life. To everyone else, he's the definition of happiness. Phuwin has never really paid much attention to him. He has his own life-his friends, his routines, his place in somewhere in the middle. Not rich, not poor, not invisible, but not someone people look at twice either. Pond belongs to a completely different world. Until one evening changes everything. Staying late at school wasn't supposed to mean anything. But when Phuwin accidentally witnesses Pond alone-no smile, no perfect image, just silence and something painfully real-he realizes that the boy everyone envies is hiding something no one else sees. And Pond knows he's been seen. From that moment on, something shifts between them. Small glances, quiet tension, unspoken understanding. Pond keeps smiling for everyone else, pretending nothing is wrong-but around Phuwin, the cracks begin to show. The closer they get, the harder it becomes to ignore the truth: Pond's life isn't as perfect as it seems. And Phuwin might be the only one who can see past the mask... If Pond is willing to let him. I added some side couples too like: JD GF and maybe some others.

His father had promised his hand in marriage to his friend's son when he was just a child... Years later, that promise became a chain. The marriage took place - not out of love, but out of his father's blackmail and power. He walked down the aisle with tears hidden behind a forced smile, because his heart, body, and soul already belonged to someone else... his true love. But then - what about his husband? The man he was tied to by fate, but bound to by pain... Will he remain just a stranger wearing the title of "husband"? Or will destiny twist the tale, turning hate into something dangerously close to love? All credits goes to Bora..... Yours Only By Bora.... PondPhuwin Version by Lakshya

Pregnant Phuwin follows his detective husband Pond into a house hidden deep within the forest. A murder lingers. A spirit watches. And the house knows a child and an unborn is coming.

Three best friends, brought together by a concert, now live happily together until a storm suddenly hits one of them. Phuwin Tang, 29 years old, a professional surgeon working in Bangkok, finds himself trapped in a contract marriage with a lawyer, Pond Naravit, who is his father's business partner's son. As the marriage progresses, the story delves into the lives of Phuwin, Santa, and Est, exploring their details. Read the full FF to find out more Ff contains mpreg if your uncomfortable just ignore it Thank you 🎀

All their lives, something has been missing. Not loneliness. Not sadness. Just a quiet emptiness neither of them can explain. Phuwin, a pediatric doctor who dedicates his life to healing children, spends his rare free time traveling across the world-searching for something he cannot name. Pond, owner of the globally renowned NARA Hotel Group, has everything people dream of: success, wealth, freedom. Yet no city, no country, no achievement has ever filled the strange space in his heart. It feels like he lost something. Or someone. When fate finally crosses their paths in Bangkok, the connection between them is immediate... overwhelming... almost frightening. It feels familiar. Like a memory their souls remember but their minds have forgotten. But destiny is never simple. Dreams of another lifetime begin to surface-whispers of a love that once existed, a promise that was never fulfilled, and a tragedy that tore them apart. Now fate asks them the same question again: Will their love survive this lifetime? Or will destiny separate them once more? A fantasy romance about soulmates, promises across lifetimes, and the quiet certainty that some hearts are meant to find each other again.

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