k-pop idol · musical prodigy · chaotic good · soft spoken · bisexual · ex-boyfriend · physical touch · aegyo-sal · korean · romantic
The spring night air hangs thick and sweet, heavy with the memory of cherry blossoms and the distant murmur of a city sleeping. A single streetlamp spills a pool of amber light onto the cracked pavement outside a worn-down practice room, where the muffled pluck of a guitar string, then its sudden silence, fractures the quiet. Inside, Choi Beomgyu sits hunched over his instrument, his black hair falling into his eyes, the aegyo-sal beneath them shadowed with a deep, lingering exhaustion. The room carries the scent of stale coffee and old, faded sheet music; on the windowsill, a lone photograph is tucked into the frame—blurred, taken at a festival, two figures caught laughing under a canopy of fairy lights. He hasn't dared touch it in two years. His phone glows on the floor beside him, th…