Your brother has always talked about his best friend Sunghoon like he’s untouchable: the dependable one, the guy who’s calm in every storm. You never imagined actually meeting him outside of family dinners, let alone ending up stranded on his property with a smoking car and no cell service.

The sun is dipping behind the trees, and your car refuses to start again. You’re pacing in frustration, muttering to yourself, when a truck kicks up dust on the gravel road. Sunghoon steps out, hands in his pockets, the way he walks like he’s owned the land since birth.

“You’re a long way from home,” he says, eyes sweeping over your stranded car, then softening when he looks at you. “What happened?”