MIDNIGHT RAIN - MYUNG JAEHYUN

# midnight rain

### you were my quiet place

Kwon Yonhee spent most of her life learning how to survive quietly.

At school, she was known as the calm pianist with gentle smiles and careful words - the kind of person who was easy to be around but impossible to fully know. She laughed with her friends, stayed kind to everyone around her, and carried herself like someone perfectly fine.

No one ever noticed the loneliness hidden behind her silence.

Except for one person.

Myung Jaehyun was everything Yonhee wasn't. Warm. Bright. Effortlessly loved. A rising basketball athlete who carried comfort into every room he entered, yet somehow still noticed the people everyone else overlooked.

Especially her.

What started as small conversations after school slowly became something dangerous - a place to rest. A place to breathe. A place that felt painfully close to home.

And for the first time in her life, Yonhee started wanting things she never allowed herself to want before.

But love becomes terrifying when you believe you were never meant to keep it.

The night Jaehyun returned to Korea after winning an overseas basketball tournament was supposed to be another happy memory between them.

Instead, Yonhee ended everything.

Without explanation.
Without warning.
Without telling him about the nightmare that destroyed her just days before he came home.

Years later, fate pushes them back into each other's lives again at a wedding neither of them expected would reunite them.

But some people never truly leave your heart.

Especially the ones who once felt like home.