Wild Apricot

In the quiet countryside, where life moved slow and the days blurred together, he appeared—out of place, out of time. A rich boy from Seoul with a semester left until graduation, now trapped in this backwater, as if fate had pulled him there by the collar. He was sharp-edged, spoiled by the world, and accustomed to having it bow to him. But here, in the midst of nothing, he found her—a girl he mistook for a helper, someone to command, yet someone he couldn’t ignore. She was young, far too young to understand the storm she had wandered into. But he saw her—saw her in a way that was more than just seeing. He called her pretty with a careless ease, as if beauty was a thing he could claim, as i...