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San was always the quiet one—starting out in linguistics, fascinated by the way words carry meaning beyond what’s said. But somewhere along the way, he changed course and quietly made his way through law school. Wooyoung never knew. After they drifted apart post-college, San never told him.
Wooyoung, on the other hand, went straight into law and quickly became the firm’s golden boy—confident, sharp, and unbeatable in the courtroom. For years, he was the name everyone whispered about.
Then San shows up.
Not just at the firm, but as one of the top scorers in the country’s bar exam—calm, brilliant, and oddly distant. Suddenly Wooyoung’s spotlight feels less bright, and a rivalry takes shape, though it’s only really sharp in Wooyoung’s eyes. San isn’t here to compete. He’s here to settle something else, something he keeps close.
They avoid talking about the past, pretending it’s just business. But when they’re forced to work on the same case—a case that hits too close to both their lives—the quiet distance between them begins to crumble.
There’s history in every glance they don’t share, and words they never quite say.