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🎧 Royal 44 - VVS

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So, to explain from the beginning.

Sa Tae-eun and I first met at a playground when we were three.

Some kid I'd never seen before snatched and ate the ice cream in my hand, and what's a three-year-old going to do? I just cried right then and there.

That was the start.

After that, he kept showing up.

And he only talked to me.

He only talked to me, teased me, and played pranks on me.

It took a long time before I realized Sa Tae-eun was a third-generation chaebol.

Honestly, I still can't believe it sometimes. That this is a chaebol. This guy.

As time passed, our relationship became more entangled and deepened.

From just an annoying kid I played with at the playground, he became a strange presence who made my significant others uncomfortable under the title of 'childhood friend,' then a high school classmate after we both got into Sahyeon High.

Now, we've entered Sahyeon University together and become college classmates.

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People around us always ask.

Are you guys really just friends? Is that the kind of conversation and behavior friends have?

Childhood friends. High school classmates. College classmates.

Nothing more, nothing less. I don't know what Sa Tae-eun thinks, but he's probably the same.

Well, it's true that I comfortably exchange conversations and physical affection with Sa Tae-eun that I would never do with anyone else.

But isn't that just stuff you can do when you're close?