Reluctantly Yours

"I love you is overrated. Can you be the Blue to my Storm instead?"

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All his life Lee Sung-Hoon has known fear----fear of his mother, vulnerability, and losing that tiny, fragile balance he calls freedom. When his controlling mother demands he bring a date to his best friend's sister's wedding or kiss his allowances goodbye, desperation drives him to seek his best friend's aid. Together, they rope in Kim-Cheon-sa, affectionately nicknamed Blue, who agrees to be Sung-Hoon's fake girlfriend in exchange for dumplings.

What starts as a simple ruse spirals into something more that neither of them expected. As Sung-Hoon and Blue navigate meddling relatives, forced proximity, and tender moments that are too difficult to ignore, the lines between pretense and real blur. Sung-Hoon slowly unearths emotions he buried for years like a blooming lotus on a warm summer day as Cheon-sa becomes his sheer reason for existence.

But when his mother discovers their secret, she plans a new scheme and forces her son into an arranged marriage. With skyrocketing stakes, emotions at an all-time high, and a one-week countdown till the wedding, Sung-Hoon must decide to choose between his comfort zone---living a life filled with fear and helplessness and risking everything for the woman who gave him the taste of love and freedom.

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The rewritten version of SARANG
BOOK 1 of the SARANG series

Start: January 17, 2025
End: January 17, 2025