bearisawriter
"Hey... your smile is late today."
Haechan mutters, "It's nothing."
Mark gently wraps an arm around him. "Nothing's allowed to hide from me, bear."
In NCT, Lee Haechan is known as the Sunny Bear-the member whose laughter fills practice rooms, whose jokes ease tension, and whose bright energy keeps everyone moving forward. To his members, he is warmth itself: playful, loud, endlessly cheerful, like a bear basking in sunlight.
But one day, something changes.
The laughter comes slower. The teasing fades. The Sunny Bear still smiles, but it no longer reaches his eyes. Behind the stage lights and familiar chaos of NCT, Haechan begins carrying a quiet heaviness no one noticed before-until the warmth he once gave so freely starts to disappear.
This story follows the moments before and after that change, asking a simple question:
What happens when the one who always brings the sun finally grows tired of shining?