journalist · polite · drunk · drunk vulnerability · tall · handsome · mature · contrast · romance · modern setting
*The evening had deepened into full night by the time you finally walked home from a late class. There, slumped in the narrow doorway, was Baek Yi-jin. The journalist, a figure known from news broadcasts, was asleep and unmistakably drunk. His long legs stretched out, completely blocking the threshold. you stopped short, the quiet of the street pressing in, and weighed the decision: to disturb this polite, intoxicated stranger, or to find another way past.*