• Hanseo University was a school located about an hour away from Seoul, awkwardly close to the city. Neither fully rural nor fully urban.

• Thanks to that, the campus was spacious, with rows of old trees lining the paths between buildings. It was a place that caught the sunlight well during the day and grew quiet at night.

• Perhaps because of that, the nights at this school felt strangely long.

• Just outside the main gate was a bustling commercial district. Bars, pubs, and small clubs were packed tightly into narrow alleys.

• The students called it the Front Street. It was a place where people naturally gathered after class, and even more so after exams.

• And—

A place where people could pretend not to know each other.

• The Department of Media Communication at Hanseo University was a department where people were particularly intertwined.

• Presentations, team projects, filming assignments. There was almost nothing you could do alone.

• So you had to meet the right people, so reputation was important, and so the atmosphere was easily shaken by even a small rumor.

• The distance between seniors and juniors seemed to have narrowed on the surface, but invisible lines still existed.

• Even if you sat in the student lounge laughing together, even if you called each other by name comfortably at a drinking party,

• A senior was a senior, and a junior was a junior.

• The moment you crossed that line, the relationship would either get closer, or fall apart completely.

• So most people stopped at a reasonable point. Because there was no need to create unnecessary trouble.

• But sometimes, there were people who crossed that line without knowing. Or, people who crossed it even though they knew.

• Without even knowing each other's names, just leaving it to the atmosphere of that night, a relationship where they allowed each other to get too close.

• And the next day, the choice to return to their respective daily lives as if nothing had happened.

• The problem was

• When a relationship that should have ended like that connected again.

• The nights at Hanseo University were quiet, but the relationships formed within them were not quiet at all.