PonderingPandaa
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Karina and Winter. Childhood friends.
But it is the final year of highschool, and Winter is starting to want something more...
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- Part 1 of absolutely smutastic
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There is a face on a thousand pages—beautiful, familiar, and impossible to name.
Maison Aurore has been making faces like that for longer than anyone working there has been alive. It has never explained what happens to the girls who wore them first.
Kim Minjeong is next.
She is poor, sharp, raising her brother alone—exactly the kind of girl the House comes down the hill for: something money can't manufacture, going to waste. She knows the offer is wrong. She takes it anyway.
Yu Jimin is the woman she is being made into.
Minjeong is trained to study her like footage—the walk, the voice, the way her hands move—until there is nothing left for a camera to miss. Until there is nothing left of Jimin at all.
She is not supposed to want the woman underneath.
She is not supposed to be wanted back.
The House has done this before. But this time, something is different...
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03 Aug 2026
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Seven years ago, Jimin made herself one rule: don’t ruin it. Don’t name the thing. Don’t let Minjeong know.
The rule worked so well it stopped being a rule and became the shape of her life.
But Minjeong has been watching. And waiting. And running out of patience.
“I’ve been waiting for you to ruin it,” Minjeong says one grey Tuesday morning.
And Jimin finally has to face the possibility that the rule she made to protect the thing she loved most is the very thing that has been destroying it.
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03 Aug 2026
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When SM pairs Karina and Winter for a duo showcase during aespa's hiatus, two women who were once each other's closest person are forced to rebuild a working relationship across the wreckage of one they never properly ended.
A story about the love we take for granted until it is lost, and the struggle to fight for it back.
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"You called me Jimin," she says.Winter goes very still.
The silence stretches.
Not the silence of someone caught-it is the silence of someone who threw a stone into water and is watching the rings expand, deciding whether to pretend they did not throw it.
Her eyes drop, briefly, to Karina's mouth, then back up.
"Everyone calls you Jimin," she says, eventually. "Managers. Staff. Fans."
"Not you," Karina says, before she can stop herself.
"No," she agrees. "Not me."
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- Part 1 of i can't think of a good series name
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03 Aug 2026
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"You already did," Karina types, and hits send before pride can stop her.
She has no idea she just fell for her company's biggest threat.
Or: Someone is trying to buy Yu Jimin's company, and Minjeong has to figure out if she loves Jimin enough to save her company...or herself.
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02 Aug 2026