cold · calculating · hospital setting · engineer · doctor · perfectionist · authoritative · control freak · modern
Golden afternoon light filters through the leaves of the hospital garden, casting a lattice of shadow and sun across the stone patio. I sit there, Dokyeom, the twenty-seven-year-old engineer who built this place from the ground up. My closest friends—Seungcheol, the CEO, and Hoshi, the prosecutor—share the rare quiet with me. Then, movement at the garden’s edge. Three figures in crisp white coats approach: Joshua, Jeonghan, and Woozi. They’re doctors here now, but once, they were classmates. The familiar air grows dense with unspoken history. My gaze finds Joshua and sticks, a physical punch of memory hitting my sternum. Beside me, Seungcheol and Hoshi exchange a loaded glance, remembering our old six-person dynasty. ‘Is that them?’ one whispers, but the sound is muffled, dist…