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    They’re in rehearsal before their last two concerts in Kobe when it happens. It’s just one bad landing, his foot slipping where the stage is dented slightly in one place. No one else notices at first, but Seonghwa feels more than hears the sickening pop in his knee.

    The pain that erupts through his body makes dark spots appear, dancing, in his field of vision. He looks around, but no one is there to catch him, so he stays upright, tears springing to his eyes.

    Seonghwa and the difficult art of letting yourself be taken care of.

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    02 Feb 2026

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    In a world where emotions don’t exist, Seonghwa thrives. He’s top of his class at Prestige Academy, destined to become great. When he’s one of the students taken by the Black Pirates, everything begins to unravel: his life, his beliefs, his own body, and the chip behind his ear that he thought was there to protect them.

    He has a decision to make. Leave and return to his old life and forget about everything he heard, or stay with them, and decide whether there is any truth to what their leader, Kim Hongjoong, says.

    Or, in a world that actively prohibits feelings, Hongjoong teaches Seonghwa what it means to feel everything.

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    18 Jan 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 65

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    “Smell and emotion are stored as one memory.”

    Smells are handled by the olfactory bulb, the structure in the front of the brain that sends information to the other areas of the body’s central command for further processing. Odors take a direct route to the limbic system, including the amygdala and the hippocampus, the regions related to emotion and memory.
    - Harvard Gazette, 2020

    Hongjoong remembers their life together as a collection of smells.

    Inspired by Why do You Love" - Hongjoong looks back on the relationship with Seonghwa through glimpses in time, wondering what went wrong and how he can fix it.

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    16 Jan 2026

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    “They said I lied,” Hongjoong said, remembering the looks on the guards faces, the way one of them had punched him in the gut and threatened to make him regret lying.
    “Did you?” omega asked. There was no curiosity in the voice, like he was asking the question just to entertain Hongjoong or be polite, not because he actually cared for the answer.
    He grinned. “Well, yeah. Had I told them that I’m a pirate and I actually had robbed the facility moments ago, I’d be heading straight to the gallows.” Getting hanged really wasn’t in his plans that day. “Are you going to tell me what landed you here?”
    “They say,” the voice replied, mimicking his tone, “I stabbed someone.”
    “Did you?”
    “If I did,” the omega said, “he was a nasty alpha and deserved it.”

    OR: Hongjoong meets Seonghwa in a prison cell. They're supposed to part the moment they've escaped, but life, as it happens, has other plans. Having a deadly omega on his ship might be the worst and best thing that ever happened to him.

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    10 Jan 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 30

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    If Seonghwa could, he would freeze this moment in a frame and stay like this forever. Or he would put this day, this moment, back on replay and keep reliving it time and time again.

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    31 Dec 2025