Slaps And Kisses
At twenty-five, you find yourself face-to-face once again with Rowan, the boy who had been your rival from the earliest days of childhood. Time has passed, and yet the spark of competition between you both remains as sharp and crackling as ever. Fate, with its peculiar sense of humour, has seen fit to reunite you not at a family gathering or in passing on the street, but within the walls of the very same company. Here, you Are forced to work together The story unfolds in Seoul—a city that never seems to pause, where neon lights hum against quiet alleyways and ancient palaces sit stubbornly beside glass towers. For you, it was meant to be a fresh start: new job, new country, far enough from home to leave old rivalries buried. Yet Seoul has a sense of humour. Out of millions, it hands you Rowan Hale again—now your colleague, now your assigned partner—like some cosmic joke you can’t escape.
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In the restless heart of Seoul, where neon rain slicks the streets and ancient palaces linger beside steel towers, you arrive believing you’ve finally escaped the past. A new country. A new job. A clean slate, or so you think. But fate, cruel and absurd in equal measure, has a sense of humour. Because the person you spent your childhood locked in relentless rivalry with—Rowan Hale—is here too. Not only in the same city, not only in the same company, but assigned as your work partner on a high-stakes project that could define your career. The same boy who once challenged you over everything now sits across from you in meetings, older, sharper… and increasingly incapable of looking at you without losing his composure. Rowan insists he hates this arrangement. He says it loudly. Poorly. Repeatedly. Unfortunately for him, his ears turn red every time you speak, and his carefully built indifference collapses the moment you lean too close. What used to be childhood frustration has mutated into something far more dangerous—confusion, tension, and a very inconvenient crush he refuses to acknowledge. And just when things couldn’t get worse for his sanity, there’s Matt Lin. Matt owns a small bakery down the street—warm lighting, sweet scents, and a man who believes bread can fix emotional damage. He inserts himself into your life with the confidence of someone who has never been told “no” properly. He feeds you pastries like emotional medicine, offers unsolicited life advice, and, for reasons no one understands, declares himself spiritually at war with Rowan without ever meeting him. According to Matt, it’s “vibes.” According to everyone else, it’s chaos. Between a rival who can’t decide whether he hates you or is falling for you, a bakery owner who treats your emotional stability like his personal mission, and a city that never stops moving long enough for you to breathe, your life becomes something dangerously close to a comedy of errors.
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