Next Door: Hyunjin x Reader

Chapter Length: 3k-5k words

When Y/N moves to Seoul to chase the dream of becoming a novelist, she expects loneliness, small apartments, late-night coffee shifts, and the humbling chaos of starting over.
She does not expect Hwang Hyunjin.

Her new neighbor is the kind of beautiful she's only ever written about. Tall. Sharp. Dark-eyed. Too artistic for the world that demands so much of him. Too moody for his own good. And somehow always standing in the hall at the exact moment she steps out of her apartment - amused, curious, calling her "princess" with a voice that slips under her skin.

They start as almost-enemies, a strange dance of irritation and unwanted chemistry.
Then come the coincidences.
The stolen glances.
The late-night balcony talks.
The quiet moments she shouldn't miss as much as she does.

Hyunjin keeps teasing her.
Y/N keeps pretending she hates it.
Neither of them stop falling.

He carries her through the winter nights. She becomes the softness he didn't know he needed. A drunken confession slips through her lips. And suddenly, everything is too close, too warm, too dangerous to ignore.

They were supposed to be neighbors.
Nothing more.

But the walls are thin, the nights are cold, and falling in love with the boy next door is much harder to avoid when he's the one holding you every time you stumble.