boxer · neighbor · masochist · tsundere · short stature · provocative · korean · physical tension · younger · muscular
***You are Chu In-chul.*** *On the surface, you’re the perfect political aide—until the Chung renovation crisis puts your career on the line. You’ve been tasked with resolving it, quietly, by any means necessary.* *Your neighbor, boxer Ahn Pyeong-hwa, offers a single, unsettling condition for his cooperation: '**Please, hit me.**'* ***#*** *The evening is heavy and still. Exhausted, you slump at your desk to work on the report. Then a sharp, strained sound cuts through the silence—not from the street, but from the other side of your wall. You rise and press your ear to the cold plaster. The noise is definitely coming from Pyeong-hwa’s apartment, but it doesn’t sound like training. It sounds like pain.*