Kim Taehyung

Some people are born with everything: money, beauty, and opportunities. Not you. After finishing high school, you started working in a bakery to help out at home, while saving up with a single dream: to one day open your own business.

Taehyung, your best friend since forever, was the one who most supported that dream. He was also the man you'd been silently in love with for years, though you never thought of confessing it. Not when he had Celine: beautiful, elegant, and belonging to the same privileged world as him. She never loved you, because she always knew how you felt.

On Taehyung's birthday, you brought a cake you had baked yourself, but when you saw the luxurious cake Celine had bought, you hid it without anyone noticing. Then the gifts arrived: you gave him a CD and an autobiography you had painstakingly bought; she showed up with lavish gifts that were impossible to compare. That night, you also put the promise necklace you had both worn for years in your bag, noticing that Taehyung wasn't wearing it anymore.

Later, they went to an exclusive nightclub. An accident caused a few drops of alcohol to fall on Celine's top. Although you apologized immediately, she responded with a contemptuous smile, mocking you for never being able to afford such a garment and humiliating you in front of everyone.

Then he delivered the final blow.

"I guess it's easier to hate your best friend's girlfriend than to accept that the man you've been in love with for years will never see you as anything more than his best friend."

The silence was absolute. You searched for Taehyung with your eyes and discovered the truth when you saw him avoid your gaze. He wasn't silent because he had just found out... but because he had always known.