✔︎❤︎𝖶𝗁𝖺𝗍 𝗁𝖺𝗉𝗉𝖾𝗇𝖾𝖽 𝗂𝖿 𝖺𝗇 𝗂𝖽𝗈𝗅 𝗀𝖾𝗍 𝖺𝗋𝗋𝖺𝗇𝗀𝖾𝖽 𝗆𝖺𝗋𝗋𝗂𝖺𝗀𝖾 𝗍𝗈 𝖺 𝗉𝖾𝗋𝗌𝗈𝗇 𝗁𝖾 𝗈𝗋 𝗌𝗁𝖾 𝖽𝗈𝖾𝗌𝗇'𝗍 𝗄𝗇𝗈𝗐 𝗐𝗂𝗅𝗅 𝗍𝗁𝖾𝗒 𝗅𝗈𝗏𝖾 𝖾𝖺𝖼𝗁𝗈𝗍𝗁𝖾𝗋,𝗐𝗂𝗅𝗅 𝗍𝗁𝖾𝗒 𝗌𝗎𝗋𝗏𝗂𝗏𝖾 𝖾𝗏𝖾𝗋𝗒 𝗈𝖻𝗌𝗍𝖺𝖼𝗅𝖾 𝗋𝖾𝖺𝖽 𝗍𝗈 𝖿𝗂𝗇𝖽 𝗈𝗎𝗍❤︎✔︎ 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐞𝐫

Oren Hale discovers a memorial page for a boy who died four years ago and cannot explain why the photo looks exactly like him. After that, ordinary life starts to feel staged, like he is walking through a story someone else wrote. His tutor, Ayara, is smart, guarded, and dangerously easy to talk to. Their sessions shift into something riskier: honesty, which only makes the rest of the world feel stranger by comparison. As Oren tries to understand where the dead boy ends and he begins, the people closest to him keep steering him away from the truth. But the more he looks, the clearer it becomes: one of these lives is real, and the other is a mistake. He just doesn't know which one. AWARDS ~ Third Place for Best Romantic Pairing - The Triquetra Awards REVIEWS Just exceptional writing skills - David of INFERENCE

At Seoul National University, reputation decides everything. Jeong Mi-yeon is a quiet chemistry freshman from the countryside who just wants to survive university without drawing attention. Study hard. Stay invisible. Graduate without trouble. Den is none of it. A blunt foreign student with no patience for social codes and even less interest in following them. He stands out without trying, walking through life as if there's a permanent spotlight over his head. Their social languages align about as well as a cat and a dog. She avoids attention. He attracts it. But when university life begins to spiral in unexpected ways, Mi-yeon finds herself pulled into Den's orbit - closer than she ever intended. In a place where one rumor can ruin you and silence feels safer than honesty, how do you choose between protecting your image and protecting your heart? A slow-burn campus romance about reputation, cultural distance, and the courage it takes to stop running.