BLADES & BRUISES

Taehyung glides. Jeongguk collides. And somewhere in the middle of that ice, they learn how to fall.

Taehyung is South Korea's rising figure skating star-elegant, untouchable, and colder than the rink he dances on. He doesn't talk to strangers. He doesn't lose composure. And he definitely doesn't have time for cocky hockey players who mistake brute force for talent.

Jeongguk is the bruised heart of the national hockey team-reckless, inked, and permanently one fight away from suspension. He doesn't do delicate. Or disciplined. Or beautiful boys who think they're better than everyone.

When a rink renovation forces them into the same cold space-early mornings, late nights, blades carving the same ice-the tension turns brutal. Until it doesn't.

Until glances last too long.
Until bruises are no longer just on skin.
Until they both start to break routine-and maybe, for the first time, break for each other.