"Promise? We'll stay together even if idols are forbidden to date?" "Promise."

"You can be anything. Be yourself."

Die with a smile is a heartbreaking, tender short story about love at the end of the world, and the choice to hold on-even when time is running out. Something I decided to cook up during tornado season 😭 𝐗𝐥𝐨𝐯 𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐭 𝐋𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐳 - 𝐇𝐲𝐮𝐧 𝐱 𝐑𝐮𝐢

In a crumbling world where the dead still walk, Hyun survives by staying useful. He fixes generators, pipes and fences, anything to keep the people safe and his thoughts quiet. Then Rui walks in with blood on his clothes, smoke in his voice and unafraid of being himself. A survivor with a mouth made of honey and a body that moves like sin itself. Rui survived the apocalypse by refusing to be small and Hyun survived it by hiding everything soft inside of him. Maybe with Rui's help, Hyun can learn that strength was never the absence of softness, but the courage to keep it.