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To everyone at school, Hanabi and Mugi seem to be the perfect couple—devoted, poised, and utterly inseparable, the kind of pair their classmates can only envy. Yet the romance everyone admires is built on a carefully hidden truth. That truth is simple and devastating: neither of them actually loves the other. Their relationship is not romance at all, but a pact between two hearts aching for someone else—people they adore yet can never truly have. Starved of a love with nowhere to go, Hanabi and Mugi turn to each other as substitutes, trading hollow affection in place of the real thing and masking their loneliness behind the appearance of an ideal relationship. But what begins as a convenient arrangement grows heavier with each passing day. Every affectionate gesture becomes a quiet betrayal of the one they truly long for, and every shared moment deepens the fiction they have created. Torn between the comfort they find in each other and the painful love they refuse to release, Hanabi and Mugi must confront how long they can keep pretending—and whether a heart can survive on borrowed warmth.
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