35 parts Ongoing Before everything fell apart, it was just a shade darker than love.
Joshua Hong never meant to become the kind of person who survives instead of lives.
He is still gentle, still composed, still standing exactly where people expect him to be.
From the outside, nothing seems broken.
From the inside, everything feels muted-like a song played too softly to recognize.
Choi Y/N exists now only in absence, yet her presence lingers in ways that refuse to be named.
In habits that don't make sense anymore.
In rooms that feel unfamiliar.
In the quiet moments where memory is louder than reality.
This is not a story about how they fell in love.
That story has already been told.
This is what comes after love-
when the world keeps moving but something inside you doesn't.
When healing is suggested, but remembering feels safer.
When silence becomes a companion instead of a void.
Joshua is not unraveling.
He is holding himself together too carefully.
This is him navigating days that feel heavier than they should, surrounded by people who sense something unspoken, carrying a past that hasn't learned how to stay in the past.
In the Time of Grey is a quiet, introspective continuation of In the Time of Us-
a story about aftermath rather than endings, about the spaces love leaves behind, and the dangerous comfort of not letting go.
Not every love story ends loudly.
Some fade.
Some linger.
And some remain-
right here,
in the time of grey.
