red .

you owe me sleep , so much sleep .

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Kim Isla doesn't believe in second chances - not when it comes to love, and definitely not when it comes to Lee Donghyuck.

She's worked too hard to move on. Grown from the girl who once believed in forever, into a woman who survives with silence and routine. Her past with Haechan? Buried. Locked away with all the versions of herself she swore she'd never be again.

But life doesn't always listen.

When her company announces a new brand ambassador, Isla never expects him. Not him. Not the boy who used to hold her heart so gently it almost didn't hurt when he let go.

Now he's back - louder in the world, softer in the eyes. And for him, the reunion feels like sunlight after years of rain. He smiles like nothing's changed, speaks to her like she's still his, and looks at her like he never stopped hoping.

But Isla?
She remembers the goodbye.
The silence. The heartbreak she had to carry alone.

Still, the more they work together, the harder it becomes to ignore the pull - the memories, the laughter, the version of them that still lives somewhere in between who they were and who they are now.

He falls first.
She falls harder.
But the deeper they go, the closer they get to the same question:
Can something once broken ever be whole again?