DEAD ENDS AND CIGARETTE

Dead Ends and Cigarettes

The city doesn't sleep it just hides its pain under flickering streetlights and half-burnt cigarette ends. Keri Kim works the night shift at a small convenience store on the corner of nowhere, where the same faces come and go, but one always lingers Geum Seongje. He shows up around midnight, buys cigarettes he never lights, and leaves without saying much. She doesn't ask why. Some people wear silence like armor.

He's a boy made of bruises and smoke, a fighter who's forgotten what peace feels like. She's a girl who believes love can still bloom in concrete cracks. Two people standing on opposite sides of survival, slowly finding warmth in each other's quiet.

But peace is a luxury in a world that feeds on violence. When Seongje's past catches up and the city turns its eyes back on him, Keri is dragged into the darkness he's spent his whole life trying to outrun.

It's not a story about saving each other it's about what happens when two broken souls try to keep breathing in a world built to suffocate them.
And maybe, just maybe, find something like love between the dead ends and the cigarettes.

GeumSeong x fem oc