My Ex Is My Personal Assistant

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In the humid chaos of Chulalongkorn university campus, third-year William Jakrapatr is pure sunlight-loud laughter, open heart, and an almost reckless kindness that draws people in. His best friend Aou matches his energy, the two of them moving through life like twin sparks. Across the courtyard is Est Supha: sharp-tongued, effortlessly alluring, and quietly dangerous. He collects attention the way others collect memories, never intending to keep any of it. His best friend Boom watches with knowing eyes, half-amused, half-worried.

William falls first and falls completely. He courts Est with the sincerity of someone who has never learned to half-love-handwritten notes, late-night drives, thoughtful gifts, and the steady promise that he will always choose Est's smile over his own pride. When William finally asks for something real, Est says yes. For four bright months, William loves with his whole chest. He never notices the way Est's affection never quite reaches his eyes.

Then Est ends it with the casual cruelty of someone who was only ever playing.
"It was fun," he says. "You were a good way to pass the time. I never loved you."

Something in William goes quiet that day and never fully comes back.

He leaves Bangkok for London, putting an ocean between himself and the boy who taught him what it felt like to be disposable. Four years later he returns as the cold, precise CEO of a company with twenty-five branches across the country-sharp suits, sharper silence, and a reputation for being impossible to impress. The sunlight is gone. In its place is a man who no longer believes in soft things.

Est, carrying four years of quiet guilt he has never confessed to anyone, applies for the position of personal assistant without knowing whose office he is walking into.

The day their paths cross again, William looks at the boy who once shattered him and feels nothing he is willing to name.
Est looks at the man he turned cold and finally understands the weight