"𝐒𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒, 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐃𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝐈𝐒𝐍'𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐅𝐄𝐄𝐋, 𝐁𝐔𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐇𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐘." ⋆｡°✩- slow burn 𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇, 𝐘𝐀𝐍𝐆 𝐉𝐀𝐄𝐖𝐎𝐍 has lived her entire life balancing on the edge of hunger and control - half ghoul in a city that pretends monsters don't exist. survival has always meant restraint, rules, and distance. attachment is a luxury she can't afford. 𝐉𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐒 is human. grounded, observant, and unaware of the quiet violence living just beneath the surface of the world. he doesn't chase danger - but he doesn't look away from it either. when their lives begin to overlap, hunger stops being just a need and becomes something far more dangerous. as jaewon struggles to contain what lives inside her, james is drawn closer to a truth that could destroy them both. this is a story about restraint, about love that sharpens instead of heals, and about choosing what you're willing to risk in order to stay alive. because sometimes survival isn't about staying alive - it's about choosing which part of yourself gets to live. ᴇxᴛᴇɴᴅᴇᴅ sᴜᴍᴍᴀʀʏ ɪɴ ʙᴏᴏᴋ! zhaoyufan(james) x asianfemoc 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐒: 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐄𝐃 ( @kohyuliee, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔.)

"𝐒𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐄𝐎𝐏𝐋𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐋𝐎𝐒𝐄 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐒 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐍𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐄𝐃 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐃 ." ⋆｡°✩ childhood friends to strangers to lovers. 𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇, 𝐘𝐎𝐎𝐍 𝐒𝐄𝐎𝐑𝐈 has spent the last three years building a life that asks for nothing she can't give. Seventeen, gentle, quietly sharp, and rooted in the familiar warmth of her mother's café, she keeps her world small on purpose, tucked between school days, evening shifts, and routines that never ask her to look back. Some absences are easier to live with when you stop naming them. 𝐀𝐇𝐍 𝐊𝐄𝐎𝐍𝐇𝐎 left before he understood what he was leaving behind. Now seventeen and the youngest member of 𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐒, his life moves beneath stage lights, crowded schedules, and the kind of noise that leaves very little room for quiet regret. he has spent years becoming someone the world can recognise, while still carrying memories only one person would understand. He never meant to disappear. THeir reunion is unplanned, brief, and almost ordinary, hidden beneath warm lights and coffee steam at 𝐒𝐄𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐃 𝐌𝐎𝐎𝐍, where familiarity lingers just out of reach and old feelings begin stirring in ways neither of them can explain. Norhinh happens all at once. Somw things return softly. This is a story about growing up, about the weight of silence, and about finding your way back to someone you once mistook for forever. because sometimes love isn't something new. sometimes it's something old, returning with a ᴇxᴛᴇɴᴅᴇᴅ sᴜᴍᴍᴀʀʏ ɪɴ ʙᴏᴏᴋ!