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"Chemistry is just pretty lies with dangerous reactions... like love, but worse."
That was the line.
The exact line that got Hae Soo detention on a random Tuesday afternoon in a Seoul all girls college where discipline wore soft smiles and rules came wrapped in politeness. She had said it half joking, half exhausted, completely unaware the new chemistry intern had heard everything.
Mr Woo Suk.
Twenty four. Fresh out of his bachelors.
Too young. Too sharp. Too observant.
Hae Soo, an average student with a secret life as a Wattpad writer, turned her irritation into fiction, crafting a villain inspired by him. It was her escape, her control, until her diary reached the one person it shouldn't have.
"I didn't give you permission to read that."
"You didn't make it hard to find."
Instead of ending her story, he changed it.
"Make him the hero."
Forced to rewrite, she began sharing every chapter with him. What started as punishment turned into something dangerously personal. He read between her lines. She wrote knowing he would. The villain softened. So did he.
And somewhere in between, feelings grew, unspoken, inconvenient, real.
Until reality interrupted.
"I want you to meet someone."
Her stomach sank.
"My fiancée."
"And I've been transferred."
Pause.
"To Japan."
Of course.
What followed was silence filled with everything they never said.
"You stopped writing."
"No... I just stopped posting."
"Why?"
"Because I don't know how it ends."
Five years later, she was no longer invisible. Her stories had a voice. But one remained unfinished.
Then he returned.
"Did you ever fix the ending?"
She held his gaze, the past lingering between them like an unsolved equation.
"Chemistry is beautiful reactions creating something new... just like love, but stronger."