Tao dies like this: it is summer of 2010; on the way to the company he has been casted recently. He doesn't know how to speak Korean and he doesn't know a lot about street signs either; he has been lost for over an hour now, turning left and right, utterly confused. He sits at the street pavement, thinking. What was he doing in Korea? Tao knows that he can't sing and he can't dance and all he has is his passable rapping skills and Wushu. He isn't sure if he will be able to survive training with strangers he can't understand. He should be enrolled in a university right now, along with his friends back at Qingdao. Tao is alone in this big city called Seoul.

Just then: she struts pass him, all legs and all sways. Her hair is midnight black, long and wavy with wisps of yellow dye at the tips. Her face is bare and covered with a blue scarf, hiding her nose but not her eyes are concealed through her thick sunglasses. She looks familiar but Tao can’t seem to put where he has seen her. She enters a building and only then does he notice a couple of men in black suits lurking around her form. They follow her at the same building. He raises a brow. Is she someone important for bodyguards to be around her at all times? Ah! Perhaps she works at SM too? A singer? But he doesn’t really remember her face…

“Hey boy! Don’t just sit there! If you’re going to audition then get in line!” Someone yells from behind him.

Tao looks at him, and smiles, recognizing a face. Finally, a Chinese! Awkwardly, he stands and speaks in his mother tongue and tells the guy who he is and why he is here. He is assisted inside the building when he sees the girl again. She is sitting at the stairs, texting. Her glasses are gone and her scarf loosened. He can fully see her face and when she looks at him indirectly, it feels as if his breath has been snatched away. She is pretty, with her unblemished face and big, round eyes and full, pink lips. She looks like heaven.

 “Hey, kid! The others are here. C’mere and meet your new members.” Someone ushers Tao away from this pretty face.

He discovers her identity later when he moves in to a dorm along with two more boys.

Her name: Krystal.