Familiar Stranger

Mikyla Saycon once stood on the edge of K-pop stardom a bright, promising trainee at just 15 years old. But when life handed her a different path, she chose family, purpose, and her education over fame. Now a med tech intern in Tokyo, she's focused on her future in the medical field, supported by a loving adoptive family and her best friend, the only one who knows Mikyla still secretly adores K-pop, especially ENHYPEN, and especially Nishimura Niki, her ultimate bias since college.

But fate has its own plans.

While on hospital duty one rainy afternoon, Mikyla is asked to assist a patient with a leg injury. He's tall, quiet, and a little stubborn, and they're both wearing masks. No names are exchanged. No identities revealed.

To her, he's just Patient 0419.
To him, she's just the assertive intern who doesn't treat him like a celebrity.

Neither of them realizes they've met before in a much different life, on a much different day.
Because years ago, in a dusty trainee studio, Mikyla walked away from a dream and just hours later, Niki walked in and began his own.

Bound by a shared past neither of them knows yet, they begin to cross paths more often, their connection growing naturally, deeply, quietly.

But what happens when masks come off and they realize,
They were never strangers after all?