lostjam23_
Park Jimin's world was small, warm, and painfully simple. It consisted of three people, his two senior friends who had always stood beside him like quiet guardians, and his boyfriend, Jaekhyung. Jaekhyung wasn't just someone Jimin loved. He was home. Or at least, that's what Jimin believed.
Until one day, that home shattered.
The news didn't come with thunder or warning. It came quietly, folded into family conversations and wedding preparations. Jaekhyung would be marrying Jimin's elder sister.
The betrayal wasn't loud. There was no confrontation. No screaming. Just a slow collapse , the kind where you still attend dinners, still nod when spoken to, still exist while something inside you quietly dies.
When the pain became unbearable, Jimin decides to leave.
South Korea would be his escape. A place far from memories, far from whispers, far from a house that no longer felt like home. He wasn't running toward something. He was running away from everything.
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Min Yoongi is the CEO of a renowned Korean company. Successful. Composed. Rational. To Yoongi, family and friends are everything. They are his priority, his loyalty, his foundation. He is emotionally healthy, content with his life, and perfectly capable of love. However, he just doesn't believe in relationships. Not for himself. He thinks people see his wealth before they see him. That they want the comfort of his name, not the person behind it. So he likes to keep things simple, Controlled.
Until he sees Jimin.
And something shifts.
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This isn't a story about instant love. It isn't soft, or easy, or kind. It's about grief that lingers. It's about love that arrives when someone is still bleeding. It's about second chance. It's about miscommunication that grows teeth and silence that becomes heavier than truth. Their relationship will not be smooth. And sometimes, love will not be enough to hold them together.
Some stories end the way they begin with something beautiful slipping quietly out of reach.