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'Try me. If you fall in love, I win.'
It was supposed to be a one-time sneak-in. A quick visit to a fling that turned into a permanent complication. When Park Jimin catches Cacy Solara in a place she shouldn't be, he doesn't see an intruder. He sees a challenge. He sees a woman who treats his world like a rough draft she's ready to edit.
Cacy is everything Jimin isn't used to. She is sharp-tongued, fiercely private, and treats his curated legacy as nothing more than a well-worn trope. Their relationship is a battlefield of bicker and banter, a high-stakes game of who will break first. Every sharp retort is a shield. Every lingering glance is a betrayal of the meticulously edited subtext she's spent years reinforcing.
When the challenge becomes a consequence, the game loses its rhythm. A winter goodbye leaves the narrative unfinished. It's an abrupt period at the end of a sentence that was meant to be a comma.
But as the years pass and the world changes, the game gets out of hand. Some secrets are meant to be kept, and some goodbyes are meant to be final.
One man enlists to protect a truth he can never speak. One woman disappears to hide a heartbeat he'll never hear.
Eventually, the prologue catches up to the epilogue. In the heavy, unsaid weight of a reunion years in the making, the distance between the life they left and the truth they found collapses. Jimin realizes that in their game of hearts, the silence was the loudest lie of all- and no one was playing fair.
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