Lights

"I don't think I can trust you again."

"Say it. Tell me you want nothing to do with me ever again and I promise you I will walk away this instant."

A pause.

"I know I messed up. I know the world I live in is cruel, but damn it, Nari. If silence is all you're going to give me, I'll take it as my cue to fight for you even if it means backing away from the lights."

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Yoon Nari runs her little bakery with the kind of quiet pride that comes from pouring herself into something she loves. Flour-dusted mornings, the scent of fresh bread, and the delicate hum of ovens are her world now-a world carefully built to keep the past at arm's length.

Kim Soren, on the other hand, lives under the glare of stadium lights. As a member of Ørigin, one of the hottest K-pop groups in the world, he sells out arenas, signs endless albums, and moves through the chaos of fame with a magnetic charm. Yet behind the fan chants and flashing cameras, there's a memory he can't shake: Nari, the girl who saw him before the stardom, before the dream became a gilded cage.

They haven't seen each other in years, and yet, the universe has a way of nudging the past into the present. Nari avoids him like fire, insisting she's moved on. Soren, however, quietly aches for even a glimpse of her, his own feelings tangled in the music and lights. When their worlds collide again, nothing will be as simple as it seems.