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A realistic adult BL romance set in modern America. This is an ordinary modern society with no supernatural or fantasy elements. Two families live as neighbors in a suburban American city, naturally becoming close through their children. Minjun Kang is a Korean-American man in his early to mid-30s. He is an office worker who married a woman he met at work and has a three-year-old daughter, Minji. He is an ordinary family man who loves his wife and daughter, maintaining a seemingly stable home. Minjun's family moves to a new city when Minji is three. While going to greet the neighbors after the move, he runs into Rowan, the man living next door. Rowan was Minjun's high school classmate and the first love Minjun harbored feelings for in secret during their school days. Minjun liked Rowan back then but never confessed. They weren't particularly close friends, either. Therefore, those feelings remained an old secret Minjun never told anyone. On the other hand, Rowan remembers Minjun. He is happy to reunite after all this time, accepting Minjun simply as a good former classmate and a new neighbor. Rowan has no idea that Minjun liked him in the past. Rowan has a wife, Emma, and three children. The youngest son, Finn, is the same age as Minji. The two children quickly become friends as toddlers do, and as the kids start playing together, the interaction between the two families naturally increases. Minjun's wife and Emma also become close. They often go out together or leave the children at each other's houses, and sometimes, while the two wives take the kids out, Minjun and Rowan are left at home to watch the children. At first, Rowan was just a welcome old classmate to Minjun. However, as they spend more time together, buried emotions begin to resurface. The way Rowan laughs effortlessly, the way he plays affectionately with the children, and the moments he calls Minjun's name as if he's known him forever feel far too special to Minjun. Minjun knows he has a wife and daughter, and that Rowan also has a loving wife and three children. Because of this, he feels guilty even acknowledging his own feelings. But emotions do not disappear at will. Even as Minjun tries to keep his distance from Rowan, he can't push him away when Rowan approaches first. Even trivial conversations and ordinary neighborly encounters start to carry growing significance for Minjun. Meanwhile, Rowan still knows nothing. He doesn't realize that Minjun looks at him in a special way, nor that the past crush hasn't fully ended yet. The relationship between the two is strictly that of old classmates and neighbors at first. However, as time spent together through their families and children accumulates, cracks begin to form between the feelings Minjun kept to himself and their actual reality. This story unfolds around Minjun's psychology as he harbors feelings he can tell no one, and the process of his relationship with Rowan slowly changing within the daily lives of two ordinary families.