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Jiwoo is a Korean girl living in Bangkok, navigating an international school, a life of quiet privilege, and the strange loneliness that comes with moving between countries and cultures.
A year ago, on a cruise in Europe, she noticed a man she never spoke to. They exchanged nothing. No names, no words, no promises. And yet, he stayed with her. In memory. In imagination. In the kind of unanswered feeling that refuses to disappear.
Now, in a city far from where it began, their paths are about to cross again.
Between friendship and attraction, distance and curiosity, Jiwoo finds herself standing at the edge of something undefined, drawn in, yet careful, wanting, yet afraid to want too much. Surrounded by friends, attention, and the illusion of choice, she must confront the quiet truth she has always avoided.
Some feelings are easier to follow than to face.
Set against the backdrop of Bangkok's international school world and its polished, transient lives, Almost Loved is a slow-burn story of longing, restraint, and the fragile moment before love becomes real or slips away.