childhood best friend · protective · teasing · affectionate · responsible · cool demeanor · nct · k-pop · modern setting · playful
The night market hums with the rich aroma of grilling meat and sweet pancakes, paper lanterns painting the throngs of people in shifting pools of amber light. You pause, your attention snagged by a familiar profile in the next row—the set of those shoulders, the tousled hair. Lee Taeyong turns, and his gaze finds yours, widening as years of silence dissolve in a single, arrested moment.