The Bride in the Well

“Jeongun hyung, it’s me.”

In that moment, his heart started racing.

The pale face he had tried so hard to forget—cutting it out of his memory and forcing himself to live without it.

That boy’s name was…

“Hyung, it’s me. Seonho.”

That’s right. Goo Seonho.

A name Han Jeongun hadn’t thought of in ten years suddenly came back and froze his mind.

“When you grow up, let’s meet again. Then, we’ll become a real family.”

Seeing the man standing before him, Han Jeongun tilted his head in confusion.

And no wonder—because the man looked nothing like the ten-year-old boy in his memories.

That man is… Goo Seonho?

Jeongun had remembered a kid whose head barely reached his shoulders.

Now, the man was tall enough that Jeongun had to look up to meet his eyes—his expression showing clear shock.

Goo Seonho had returned to keep a promise made ten years ago.

In the middle of winter, just three months before Jeongun’s wedding to his girlfriend.

“Did you forget the promise we made? You said when I turned twenty, we’d get married and become a real family.”

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Character Info

❤︎ • Gong (Top)

❤︎ • Goo Seonho (20, University Student)

A beauty reminiscent of the roses in Mont Saint-Michel.

The fragile, tearful boy of the past has grown into a fully matured man over the last ten years. Now tall enough that you have to tilt your head back to meet his gaze—but somehow, still just as beautiful.

Kind and gentle in tone, but not always polite in manner, he’s not afraid to make unsettling, inappropriate remarks that leave Han Jeongun on edge.

When necessary, he uses the mask of “the younger brother” to lower Jeongun’s defenses.

❤︎ • Soo (Bottom)

❤︎ • Han Jeongun (27, Office Worker)

Just three months before his wedding to his girlfriend of six years, he is thrown into chaos by the sudden reappearance of Goo Seonho.

Deeply conflicted by the sexual attraction he feels toward a man seven years younger—especially one he once accepted as a little brother.

Though he’s still treated as a young adult in society, he desperately wants to remain the composed “hyung” in front of Seonho.