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La vie en rose

Summary:

A tired salaryman meets a boy sitting on the swing of the neighborhood playground.

< The stars said I shouldn't go home tonight. > With a smile on his delicate face, covered in bandages and bruises, the stranger quietly confided.

Update 12/04/2026 : WIP of chapter 4 pending...

Chapter 1: Prologue

Notes:

(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

Chapter Text

Perhaps Choi Han had made a blunder somewhere along the way. Perhaps he had said words that could have been misinterpreted. Perhaps he should have established clear boundaries from the outset and clarified the nature of their relationship right away. At that age, it was easy to misunderstand certain things. It was the age when one was building their self-identity, after all.

No, he was undoubtedly the one to blame. 

He couldn't comprehend why he would find himself in such a ridiculous situation, otherwise : with the best friend of his nephew straddled on his lap, taking off his turtleneck sweater and exposing himself with no sense of shame. 

"I like you Ahjussi." The boy with red pearly eyes, now a splendid young man who had just entered adulthood, whispered sweetly those words to him.

 

 

Notes:

I realized that there weren't enough food of Uncle Choi Han and Kim Rok Soo, so here I am. Besides I wanted to try to write Cale as Kim Rok Soo and imagine how his life could have been if they ever met in the modern world. 👉👈

Ah also don't trust the order of the chapters. In this fic, the timeline won't be straight at all. I think we will need a few chapters before getting back the scene of the prologue.