Blood & Bouquet || JINKOOK

Blood & Bouquet || JINKOOK AU
on-going.

Here is what they don't tell you about the life you build for yourself: it is only as solid as the assumptions underneath it.

Kim Seokjin's assumption was that if you worked hard enough and wanted little enough and kept your world small enough, nothing could touch it. He'd been right for twenty-six years. He was good at the florist life, the early mornings, the difficult clients, the quiet satisfaction of an arrangement that was exactly right. He was good at being alone. He had never particularly noticed that those two things were connected.

Jeon Jungkook's assumption was that control was the same as safety. That if you managed every variable, anticipated every risk, and kept your distance from anything you couldn't afford to lose, the world would stay where you put it. He'd been right for twenty-eight years. He was good at the controlled life, the boardroom, the operations room, the carefully maintained distance between himself and anything that required more than precision. He was good at being alone too. He had always considered this a strength.

Then the wrong Tuesday happened, and a florist walked into the wrong alley, and neither of their assumptions survived the year.

Eternal Bloom is what happens when the most unbothered man in Seoul meets the most controlled one. When stubbornness meets precision. When the person who refuses to be managed meets the person who has never failed to manage anything and both of them, slowly and against considerable personal resistance, discover that the thing they've been most carefully protecting themselves from was never a threat.

It was just the life they hadn't let themselves have yet.