Even a first love that felt like eternity was helpless against the college entrance exams. The lingering scent of that guy—who left me without a second thought when I told him we should stop seeing each other, exhausted by his lack of expression—seemed to follow me like a curse. Since then, my love life has been strangely stagnant. Of course, it would be a lie to say there wasn't a single decent person during my four years of college. I did get lucky and became close to a handsome senior who entered the CS department at the top of his class, and I definitely benefited from his help until he graduated—no, until I got my current job in game development. However, that was a completely different dimension from actually dating. There might have been a strange tension for a moment, but in the end, there was no progress in that formal, academic relationship, and we naturally lost touch after graduation. Every relationship I considered meaningful ended up in the past tense.

Yes, that's what I thought until recently.

The signal for simultaneous reunions is ringing. Quietly.