
Lia’s hiatus was supposed to be temporary. Instead, it exposed fractures inside ITZY that nobody realized had already begun forming. Exhaustion. Emotional isolation. Pressure quietly eating away at them behind the scenes. Sung Benjamin was only supposed to help stabilize the situation. Unfortunately for everyone involved, emotional attachment has a habit of becoming something much harder to control.

A therapist’s forbidden experiment becomes a dangerous obsession when the idol he's tasked to manipulate, the fragile and radiant Ningning, doesn't just need his clinical analysis—she craves his approval, his touch, and whispers a single word that shatters all his protocols: "Daddy."

Behind the spotlight, beneath the composure, there is a shadow self—one that aches, desires, and remembers what it is to be utterly, beautifully unraveled. This is a story about the space between the person the world sees and the one who exists in the quiet dark, and the single, secret night that blurred the line between them forever.