Fading Lies | Kim Geon-woo

❝𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠.❞

Kim Geon-woo believes he lost his childhood best friend in a brutal fight against Kim Myeong-il. Since that day, grief has lived in his fists-heavy, quiet, permanent.

What he doesn't know is that she survived.

Hidden away by her older brother, Yun Tae-geom, she was kept out of reach of the world he was trying to protect her from. No death. No closure. Just absence.

Years later, she finally steps back into the world-still alive, still hers-but no longer the same girl he remembers.

And Geon-woo?
He's still mourning a ghost who is about to start breathing again.

˚₊‧꒰ა ☆ ໒꒱ ‧₊˚

themes:
𖦹 grief & healing
𖦹 found family
𖦹 second chances
𖦹 underground violence
𖦹 yearning that hurts a little too much
𖦹 soft love in a brutal world

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"Do dead people usually come back this pretty?"
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