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Kim Minjeong has been in love with her best friend for as long as she can remember.
Since their very first day of school. Since scraped knees on the playground. Since the countless nights they stayed up studying together. Since every time Yu Jimin held her hand, never realizing the effect it had on Minjeong's heart.
Jimin never suspected a thing.
While she collected one failed relationship after another, Minjeong collected goodbyes that never happened, confessions that never left her lips, and the certainty that loving her best friend was a one-way road.
Everyone notices.
Their friends.
Their families.
Their college classmates.
Everyone...
Except Jimin.
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13 Jul 2026
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"L-last night… I was in the house of God, but He… He didn't help me. So pl-please… please help me…"
When Minjeong slams on her brakes to avoid a bleeding girl stumbling through the torrential rain, she knows she should keep driving. Saving Jimin is a liability she doesn't need. But she pulls her in anyway.
And Jimin is innocent, pure-hearted and utterly shattered after killing the priest who tried to rape her. Abandoned by her God, she chooses to put her absolute trust in the hands of a contract killer.
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12 Jul 2026
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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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25 Jun 2026
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don’t look at me like that (the director is watching) by RhapsodicDevil
Fandoms: Aespa (Band)
05 Jul 2026
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Ten years ago, Minjeong had Karina’s face taped to her bedroom wall. Now, she has Karina’s hand on her waist, the scent of her perfume filling the space between them, and a director shouting "Action" while Minjeong tries to remember how to breathe, let alone deliver a line.
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24 Jun 2026
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Karina Yu spent her life being what others expected her to be: the daughter who never complains, the wife who never desires, the woman who fades into the background to fit in. Trapped in a marriage that was never a home, she runs away for a few days—not out of courage, but out of desperation to breathe.
Tucson was supposed to be just that: air. Until Winter crosses her path. Insolent and free in a way that hurts. The kind of freedom that, in Karina, had always slept in chains.
What begins as a distraction becomes a necessity. Winter ignites something in her that was dead, and Karina, for the first time, faces her own wreckage: the fear, the guilt, the desire she always kept as a sin.
Between empty roads, the raw heat of the desert, and a romance that holds no promise beyond the present, Karina is pushed to the edge of herself. And there, where lies no longer sustain anything, she must face the question she has always put off:
Who is she when no one demands she be someone else? And what is she willing to lose in order to finally choose herself?This story is also available in Portuguese on Wattpad, under the username babedongie.
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26 Apr 2026