flowerstxy
Jeongin had spent years perfecting a smile that wasn't always real.
To millions of people around the world, he was I.N-the charming, effortlessly lovable K-pop idol whose every laugh was clipped into edits and whose every glance sparked a thousand comments. Cameras followed him everywhere. Fans adored him. Strangers swore they knew him.
But none of them did.
Felix wasn't famous. He wasn't followed by cameras or surrounded by security. He had already graduated high school and lived alone in a quiet apartment filled with secondhand furniture, dying plants he kept trying to save, and late-night instant ramen. His world was simple, almost painfully ordinary.
Maybe that was why Jeongin kept coming back.
Felix had always struggled with abandonment, building invisible walls around himself before anyone else could leave first. Getting attached scared him more than being alone ever did.
Jeongin didn't realize he carried those same fears until Felix quietly became the safest part of his life.
For the first time in years, someone laughed at his terrible jokes instead of because they were expected to. Someone looked at him without seeing an idol first.
And that's exactly why he never told Felix the truth.
He didn't want someone to love the celebrity everyone else adored. He didn't want admiration built on albums, concerts, and carefully crafted fan service.
He wanted someone to choose Jeongin.
The one who was afraid people would leave if they saw who he really was.
But secrets don't stay hidden forever.
When the truth finally comes out, their peaceful little world begins to crack under headlines, cameras, and impossible choices. Felix is left wondering if everything was a lie, while Jeongin is forced to face the one fear he's spent years running from:
What if the person he loves can't forgive the truth?
And what if, after all this time pretending to be someone else...
they become strangers again?