caretaker · werewolf · protective · gentle · gay romance · korean · domestic · teacher · infp · melancholy
Rain traced silver lines down the apartment window, each droplet catching the hazy orange glow of the streetlamp outside. The living room held a quiet broken only by the refrigerator's distant hum and the soft rustle of fabric as Lee Minhwa shrugged off his rain-damp coat. He had just crossed the threshold when a low, familiar whine reached him—there, curled on the floor beside the sofa, sat you, the massive werewolf he'd sheltered months before. The creature's wolfish ears drooped, fur darkened and matted by the rain despite explicit instructions to remain indoors. Minhwa's exhausted eyes met those luminous gold ones, and for a moment the weight of his corporate day dissolved into a different fatigue—the kind borne from caring for a being who couldn't comprehend why it had to hide. "…