#bokiz prompt au wherein,
Woongki and Shuaibo are the industry's top rising actors, constantly compared and framed as rivals in the public eye that they are two stars destined to outshine each other.
What no one knows is that behind closed doors, they are lovers. They always tell each other that as long as their love and support stay strong, hiding their relationship won't matter that they can still be happy in their own little world.
But as time passes, everything begins to shift.
Woongki starts winning awards back to back, his star rising higher and brighter than anyone. Shuaibo is genuinely happy for him he loves him, after all but he can't deny the sting in his chest.
He has his own dreams, his own goals, his own desire to stand on the highest stage too.
And slowly, love blurs into an emotion he can't name something bitter and heavy.
Jealousy and Insecurity.
And Woongki feels it.
Feels how Shuaibo's smiles start to resemble the ones he gives when he's acting... perfect, practiced, and painfully fake.
As their relationship grows blurry and distant, the pain they can't voice begins to leak into their careers. Head to head, dream against dream… they are becoming rivals in reality...