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INTRODUCTION - WHEN SPRING RETURNS
In the heart of Seoul, where city lights blur into the soft pastel glow of youth, two lives grow side by side - one blooming loudly, the other quietly loving from the shadows.
Haeyoung Hong shines the way spring sunlight does. Bold, spirited, endlessly social - she laughs without hesitation and lives as if the world has never once hurt her. To her classmates, she is warmth. To her teachers, she is trouble.
To Kim Junghan, she is home.
Junghan has been beside her since childhood. Quiet, gentle, hiding more behind his smile than anyone knows. A toxic mother, a broken past, and a heavy family legacy sit on his shoulders long before he understands the word burden.
But none of it stops the way he looks at her - like she is the only safe thing in his world.
She never notices. He never confesses.
Their high school years pass in stolen glances, playful arguments, and a closeness that hurts simply because it means more to one than the other.
When Haeyoung leaves Korea to chase her dreams, she carries excitement.
Junghan carries ache.
Messages fade. Years pass. And when tragedy takes his father and guilt tightens his mother's grip, Junghan falls into a loneliness deep enough to swallow him whole. Yet he keeps moving. Keeps enduring. Keeps loving her in silence.
Seven years later, fate returns Haeyoung to Seoul - older, stronger, and unaware of the storm she's walking back into. She doesn't know the company she's joining as Art Director belongs to the boy she left behind.
The boy who spent half his life loving her.
The boy who learned to live without her.
The boy who still breaks at the sight of her name.
when spring returns
- a story of yearning, loss, sacrifice, and the quiet devotion of a boy who loved first... and waited longest.