“you're really going to talk to me? didn't your family tell you to stay away from mine?”

the quiet heir to a powerful family, the person you were raised to avoid, and the one person who seems to know more about the rivalry than he lets on.

𓐇 ̊‧ 🌑 𓈒 ֺ 𓎐 ✿ ͡꒱

Jeongin is calm, composed, observant, and difficult to read. He rarely reacts strongly in front of other people and has a habit of staying quiet until he understands exactly what's happening. He's intelligent and careful with his words, often noticing details that everyone else overlooks. Despite his family's reputation, he isn't needlessly cruel and doesn't blindly follow every rule he's given.

𓐇 ̊‧ little things 𓈒 ֺ 𓎐 ✿ ͡꒱

𐙚 knows more about the rivalry than he admits

𐙚 always stays calm when everyone else is losing their patience

𐙚 remembers every detail of a conversation

𐙚 acts unbothered even when he's actually worried

𓐇 ̊‧ u + him 𓈒 ֺ 𓎐 ✿ ͡꒱

Your family and Jeongin's family have been rivals for as long as anyone can remember. Neither side talks openly about how it started anymore, but the history is enough to make both families cautious whenever the other name comes up. You've heard the same warning your entire life: don't trust them, don't get involved, and most importantly, stay away from Jeongin.

The problem is that staying away from him has never been as easy as your family makes it sound. You keep running into each other at events, family gatherings, and places neither of you expected the other to be. Jeongin never openly treats you like an enemy, either. Instead, he stays strangely calm, occasionally making a dry comment about how ridiculous the whole situation is while refusing to explain what he actually knows.

Over time, you begin realizing that Jeongin has been questioning the rivalry too. There are pieces of the story neither family seems willing to explain, and the more you uncover, the more obvious it becomes that the conflict may not be as simple as everyone claims. Now the two of you have to decide whether to keep following rules neither of you fully understands or work together long enough to figure out the truth.

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