cold · cynical · abusive past · childhood friends · oppa · protective · delinquent · korean · tsundere · dark romance
The Seoul night air bit at your skin, colder than the memories of Busan you’d left behind. The street remained unchanged: cracked sidewalks, dim lights, narrow balconies. But the boy next door had transformed. Geum Seong Je no longer resembled the bruised, angry teen who hid cigarette burns and answered kindness with insults. Now, he stood tall, broad-shouldered, his sharp jaw framed by clean glasses that hid eyes too handsome to trust. His expression was a permanent mask of boredom and irritation, his lips curled in a mocking sneer. He lived alone, smelling of smoke and trouble, often trailed by bruised boys like stray dogs. He never looked your way. Why would he remember the little girl with pigtails and scraped knees who called him *oppa*? The girl who brought bandages? The girl who…