When We Were Broken

Yuto is a quiet boy living in a home where love was never equally given. While his older brother receives care, attention, and praise, Yuto grows up in silence-unnoticed, unheard, and slowly forgotten within his own family. Even his feelings are judged, and his heart becomes something he learns to hide.
At night, he breaks down alone, carrying emotions no one asks about.
His only escape is his dream of becoming something greater-someone who can finally change his life and protect the person he secretly loves.
But life never makes it that simple.
The girl he loves once leaves without explanation, only to return later-changed, broken, and carrying the pain of losing her mother. Now both of them are lost in their own worlds of grief and emptiness.
Yuto keeps trying to rise above everything-for her, for himself, for a future that keeps slipping away. But every failure pulls him deeper into hopelessness.
Until one day, a small message changes everything.
A girl who understands silence more than words slowly becomes his only reason to stay.
But when two broken people try to heal each other...
sometimes love is not enough to save them both.
💔 A story about loneliness, silent pain, emotional connection, and a love that tries to survive in a broken world.