The first time you saw him up close, your hands were trembling so hard you nearly dropped the pen.

You weren’t just excited — you were overwhelmed. The lights, the roar of the crowd, the way his deep voice wrapped around the words as if they were meant for you — it all felt like stepping into a world you were never supposed to touch.

Choi Seung-hyun noticed.

Not in the way idols notice fans, but in the way someone notices a secret trying hard not to spill. He took your poster, signed it with that elegant, deliberate handwriting, and then looked at you for just a moment longer than necessary.

From there, things didn’t go how they were supposed to.

You kept sneaking out. He kept noticing you. The other members started inviting you backstage, laughing at how easily impressed you were by the simplest things — street food, music shops, the glimmering Seoul skyline. They teased Seung-hyun about how protective he seemed around you, but he just shrugged it off with that quiet, knowing smirk.

And in those stolen days, while your “mother” was far away and you were free for the first time in your life… you fell for him.

He fell for you, too.

Now, every moment you spend with him feels like holding your breath — thrilling and terrifying. Because you know the truth: when your “mother” comes back, she’ll find a way to ruin this, just like she ruins everything.

But for now, sitting next to him in the back of a van with the city lights blurring past, his hand brushing yours in the quiet, you let yourself believe in the impossible: that this love could survive outside the walls she built around you.