" did you ever hear about the girl who got frozen? " fem!oc x kim taehyung ratings: #88 in #btsxreader #443 in #kimnamjoon #280 in #kimnamjoon #1 in #kimnamjoon

Shoutout to @Lyn_67 for being encouraging, appreciating my story, and offering an idea for this narrative. I hope this one meets your expectations. ------------------------------------------------------- Prologue Before Paris Every love story looks inevitable in retrospect. People like to imagine that meaningful moments announce themselves-that fate arrives with certainty, that beginnings feel extraordinary while they are happening. But most real beginnings are quiet. They happen on ordinary days, inside ordinary decisions, while people are too busy living to realize their lives are changing. Before Paris, there were two people who had built lives many would envy. Kim Taehyung had spent years moving from schedule to schedule, stage to stage, becoming someone recognized everywhere he went. Success had become routine. Applause had become familiar. Yet somewhere beneath the performances and expectations, he began wondering something he had avoided for years: who was he when nobody needed him to be BTS's V? Far away, Lin Xiaoran lived a different version of the same life. Her world was filled with cameras, scripts, promotions, and constant visibility. She became different people for a living, but sometimes wondered whether she had become too good at appearing fine. Her life was full, successful, and strangely lonely. Neither was searching for love. One wanted quiet. The other simply wanted to breathe. Neither knew that a city they had chosen for entirely different reasons would change everything. Because this story did not begin with a confession. Or a kiss. Or certainty. It began with a bridge. A gust of wind. Scattered pages. And two people who did not yet realize they were about to become each other's favorite place to return to.

Sarah, a 25-year-old flight attendant from Texas who's spent her life chasing freedom and travel, meets Jimin during a private flight to Paris. She treats him like any other passenger at first, not realizing he's a global star, and their interactions stay professional but subtly charged with curiosity and quiet connection. After landing in Paris, fate keeps pushing them together in increasingly impossible coincidences-first outside the Dior fashion show, then again at a restaurant that night. Each encounter chips away at their emotional distance. They talk, joke, share food, and slowly open up: Sarah reveals her love of travel and independence, while Jimin shows a more grounded, human side of himself away from fame. Despite growing chemistry and an undeniable pull between them, both become aware of the complications-especially Jimin's life and visibility. Their connection deepens through shared moments, playful banter, and emotional honesty, but Sarah ultimately pulls back, fearing inevitable pain from getting too attached. They share a bittersweet goodbye outside her hotel in Paris-holding hands, embracing, and acknowledging their brief but meaningful connection. Sarah leaves him with the sentiment that "they will always have Paris," before walking away, both of them changed by the encounter but forced back into their separate lives.

He had the world. She had a plan. Neither expected love. Jade Carter had her life perfectly planned. Successful career. Control. No room for distractions. Then Jungkook happened. Between Los Angeles and Seoul, private moments and public chaos, Jade learns that love doesn't ruin plans - it rewrites them. But when two worlds collide under the spotlight, they must decide if home is a place... or a person. A mature, emotional romance about love, family, timing and choosing each other every day.

Being an actor has always been your dream. Pursuing it meant many things - leaving the town where you grew up, distancing yourself from your family that had fallen apart, and saying goodbye to the man who made you feel what home was like. When you decide to finally return after being away for so long, you meet Min Yoongi again, and you're reminded of the summer romance from 8 years ago with the college basketball superstar whose broken dream pushed you away. As you find yourself spending time with him, you're left to wonder if love changes, if it gives second chances, or if it's just another illusion that will hurt the both of you the second time around. -- genre: angst, fluff, smut; exes au, summer romance, "long" distance relationship, parallel timelines (18+) -- pairing: basketball coach Yoongi x (f.) actor reader -- warnings: foul/explicit language; alcohol consumption & passing out, family drama, sport injury; dreams & moving away; implied depression, explicit sexual content

Before the stage lights. Before the cheers. Before love had a name. Seo Ara was fifteen when she learned how to endure-how to stand still under pressure, how to be dependable, how to hide exhaustion behind perfect posture. As an 01 liner trainee, she wasn't the youngest, and that meant no one thought to protect her. No one-except him. Bang Chan was just a senior trainee then. Someone who stayed late. Someone who noticed when she disappeared too quietly. Someone who never asked her to be more than she was. They started as practice room conversations after midnight. Walks back to the dorms. Shared silence that felt safer than words. Years later, Ara debuts as a member of ITZY, and Chan becomes the leader of Stray Kids. The world watches them from a distance, unaware of the history written in empty studios and sleepless nights. This is not a love story- not at first. It's a story about growing up under fluorescent lights. About the people who help you breathe when everything feels heavy. About a friendship that lasts long enough to become dangerous. And about the first person who stayed.

When BTS begins preparations for their worldwide Arirang Tour, the company hires a new translator to travel with them overseas. YN was only supposed to translate interviews, backstage meetings, and fan events. Nothing more. But somewhere between late-night rehearsals, airport chaos, hidden glances, and words spoken too softly to translate... Jungkook starts looking at her differently. And in a world where every move becomes headlines, falling for the group's translator might be the one thing neither of them can survive.

Between the Lines "What are your dreams?" It should have been a forgotten question. A fleeting moment between a girl and a boy she was never meant to know. Instead, it became the beginning of a story neither of them could escape. A fan became a friend. A friend became a secret. And somewhere between midnight conversations, impossible dreams, and a thousand things left unsaid, two hearts slowly found their way to each other. But some stories aren't meant to stay hidden forever. And some feelings can only remain between the lines for so long.

Aera Yoon had worked with some of the most high-profile names in the Korean entertainment world-actors with diva attitudes, idols with impossible skin routines, even a chaebol's daughter who once cried because her eyeliner wasn't "celestial enough." So when she got the call to join Stray Kids as the lead makeup artist for their upcoming comeback, she didn't even flinch. Another big name. Another job. Business as usual. Well, until she met them. Felix was used to being fawned over. The life of an Idol. He was used to the attention he received. When he meets a makeup artist whose attitude is blunt at best, all he wants to do is make her relax, smile, and laugh. He wants to make her feel loved. Make-up artist x Lee Felix 1/8 66.5k words

For four years, Haneul was Bang Chan's invisible protector-the PR director who killed his scandals, brought him coffee, and guarded the lonely man behind the leader's mask. She loved him from the shadows, knowing her existence was a professional secret. When his obliviousness finally breaks her heart, she makes the ultimate sacrifice: she resigns, leaving behind a crisis log and a quiet, agonizing confession. Without his silent anchor, Chan's world implodes. Desperate, guilty, and finally awake to what he lost, he hunts her down for a reunion that is four years overdue, passionate, and dangerously compromising. Now bound by a secret contract and explosive desire, they must navigate a hidden relationship while managing a career she can no longer afford to risk. He notices her now-but their secret love might be the biggest scandal of all.