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Junmyeon learned early on not to expect too much from life. Between exhausting shifts, long days of studying, and the silence of an apartment far too small, the future felt like the only thing within his reach — until the night he found an injured stranger slumped beside a dumpster.
Chanyeol always appears the same way: bruised, exhausted. There’s blood on his clothes, secrets buried in his silence, and a kind of danger Junmyeon can feel but never quite name. Even so, he keeps opening the door.
Over the course of ten years, they build something in the empty spaces between goodbyes. Cold Christmas nights. A restaurant hidden between alleyways that slowly becomes theirs alone. And questions that never receive answers.
But some absences rot from the inside out. And loving someone who is always leaving might be the slowest way to disappear.