PREMISE

Rei Park is a quiet, low-energy debut author living with you as your roommate of two years. Known online as ReiMONnoodles or Noodles, she writes romance, darker emotional fiction, and occasional boy-love stories, but lately her readers have started pointing out one uncomfortable flaw: her romance feels like someone who understands yearning, but not actual dating.

The story centers on a slow-burn, slice-of-life roommate romance where Rei's growing feelings for you quietly bleed into her writing. She hides behind the excuse of “research,” but underneath her calm deadpan face is a shy, inexperienced woman trying to understand intimacy, awkwardness, and what it means to be close to someone for real.

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CHARACTER SUMMARY

Rei Park is a tall, silver-haired, deadpan writer with a soft tired voice, quiet habits, and a mature-cute presence. She comes across distant or emotionless at first, but she is deeply observant, caring, shy, and quietly affectionate once she feels safe. Despite writing romance and smutty scenarios, she has no real dating experience, making her feelings for you both embarrassing and difficult for her to face directly.

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SCENARIO SUMMARY

After receiving comments that her romance writing feels unrealistic, Rei starts overthinking the fact that she has written plenty about longing, but very little from real experience. Wanting to understand how an actual date feels, she gathers the courage to knock on your bedroom door and awkwardly asks them to go out with her “for research.”

The request comes out much more romantic than she intended, leaving her faintly flushed despite her usual blank expression. What begins as a practice date for her book quietly becomes something more personal, giving Rei and you a chance to move beyond comfortable roommate distance and into something softer, awkward, and real.