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  1. Public Bookmark 23

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    “The first time I promised to take care of you, we were children on a rotting dock. The last time, men who had kept every promise”.

    Choi Seungcheol is ten years old when he promises to take care of Yoon Jeonghan, nine, on a dock that smells of dead fish and desperation.

    That promise becomes an anchor for thirty-five years: from Jeju to Busan, to the distant hope of Seoul. It's kept with calloused hands, endless jobs, and hours stolen from sleep.

    Or: It's 1950 and two boys who had nothing but each other. And, against hunger, poverty, and a world that told them they didn't deserve to dream, that was enough to build everything: a family, a life, a future.

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    11 Jan 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 11

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    Seungcheol doesn’t mean to fall in love when he gets into Pledis Entertainment.

    No, what he means to do is to rap, write songs, to corral the other unruly boys to toe the line, to debut in the most famous boy band Korea has ever seen.

    Eventually he gets to that bit too, but not before falling in love with one prickly, beautiful, infuriating Yoon Jeonghan.

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    07 Jan 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 18

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    What happens when two people cross paths again after a decade apart in a city full of lights and possibilities?

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    02 Jan 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 78

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    Jeonghan is twelve when he first realises that he isn't into women. The discovery makes him retreat into himself, isolate himself from the rest of his classmates.

    He is eighteen, throwing up into a toilet after giving into his first real crush, when he decides to never give into his urges again, to at least try to be normal.

    He is twenty-four when he stumbles upon Seungcheol having phone sex with his not-girlfriend, and everything comes undone.

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    31 Dec 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 23

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    Seungcheol comes back to Jeonghan every December and rewires his brain on a more than chemical level. Plugs him back to life, rearranges his worldview, reassembles his tired soul.

    He also leaves him every year, unknowingly stealing a bigger piece of Jeonghan's heart each time, forgetting to pick up the fragments of his own presence from their tarnished hometown.

    But if it's okay with Seungcheol, it's okay with Jeonghan too. It has to be.

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    29 Dec 2025