WeLuvBrea
At Hakuho High, everyone knows Shiori Aoyama.
Top of her class.
Kind to everyone.
Manager of the soccer team.
The girl people trust with their secrets and their pain.
They call her perfect.
But perfection is only what remains when a child learns too early how to be strong.
Shiori dreams of becoming a psychologist - not because she loves the title, but because listening is the only thing she has ever been good at. Carrying other people's worries feels natural. Letting them carry hers does not.
Then there is Nagi Seishiro.
A genius who hates effort.
A boy who drifts through life half-awake.
Someone who never asks for help - and never offers more than necessary.
When she is asked to tutor him, she expects indifference.
Instead, she finds quiet understanding.
In the silence between study sessions, late walks home, and whispered dreams of the future, something fragile begins to form. Nagi starts trying - not for soccer, not for ambition, but for her. And for the first time, Shiori wonders what it would be like to be chosen instead of choosing everyone else.
But love, like ambition, invites rumors.
Whispers spread.
Distance grows.
And Nagi makes the decision he thinks will protect her - even if it means losing her.
Years later, they meet again.
She has become the psychologist she once dreamed of being.
He has become the player the world watches.
They are older.
Stronger.
And still shaped by everything they never said.
A slow-burn, bittersweet story about first love, sacrifice, emotional maturity, and the quiet ways people change each other forever.
Because sometimes, loving someone isn't about holding on.
Sometimes, it's about letting go.