Stage Highs and Private Lives

Fame - the most important thing one can achieve, right? At least that's what the labels and agents tell us. Now I reached the top and I'm still picking up the pieces I lost on the way here. The innocent ones, the precious ones, the confident ones - the ones I'll probably never get back.
Now I have scars along my soul.
Now I have scars along my self-confidence.
Now I have scars along where I once wanted to cut the faults away.
Still love has stayed with me... through every low and hateful word thrown, and every high and award won. A love that existed before the fans screaming our names, or the music videos and the praiseful and prideful comments left. Three kinds of love, three adventurous stories, two lives lived, one open end and one undecided future.
Starlit - a name that carried more than a K-Pop girl band behind it. Now it symbolized the rebuild of a band - a brand - that no longer abided the toxic laws of the industry. A group of women that started to reshape the world that tried to shatter them into pieces. A family that chose each other and their happiness, instead of guaranteed fame and fortune.
And behind them was a K-Pop boy band that no one expected to see - that no one ever saw behind the scenes. Bound through love and friendship and a kind of family that only shared wounds and hearts could create. A family that had been one before the world knew their names and stories. Before fans thought they could own them. Before life got complicated and their privacy rare. Before the world watched...

[started: 5 June 2026]
[ended: /]
[story collection]
[Bang Chan - strangers-to-lovers]
[HAN - childhood friends-to-lovers]
[Felix - enemies-to-lovers]