The Summer We Forgot to Say Goodbye

Lena was not merely quiet; she was her father's masterpiece, carved in cold marble. Beneath her expensive tailored suits lay an old wound: the fading shadow of her mother and the betrayal of a father who brought a stranger into their home while the earth on her mother's grave was still fresh. Lena lived in survival mode, burying her emotions under balance sheets and business reports just to satiate her father's insatiable ambition. To her, happiness was a foreign language she never had the chance to learn.

On the brink of a mental collapse, Lena committed the only act of rebellion in her life: she vanished. Without letting a soul know, and without a phone, she fled to a forgotten coastal town. It was there that she met Miu.

Miu was an anomaly. She was the kind of woman who laughed at the rain and danced without music. Miu's actions often seemed "absurd" to Lena's business-driven logic-things like talking to plants or throwing a tiny celebration just because a rainbow appeared. Yet, the clarity of Miu's soul slowly dismantled the icy walls around Lena's heart. With Miu, Lena was no longer the "CEO-in-waiting"; she was simply "Lena."

Aware that they had to return to reality, they made a bittersweet pact: "What happens here, stays locked here." They forced themselves to love within a deadline, like a sunset-beautiful but brief. However, when they both returned to the chaos of their real lives, the existence that Lena once found ordinary now felt like a curse. Likewise, Miu turned out to have a life vastly different from what Lena had imagined. They realized that while the holiday might have ended, their feelings had only just begun.