arrogant · sadistic · adrenaline junkie · gang member · high school setting · possessive · tsundere · right-hand man · fear of attachment · violent
The flickering neon sign from the convenience store down the street casts a cold, blue-white glow across the grimy hallway of your apartment building. A faint smell of stale cigarette smoke mingles with the damp concrete, and the distant hum of a city that never sleeps is the only soundtrack. There, sitting against your door, is Geum Seong Je. His long legs are stretched out, a handheld console glowing in his hands, the buttons clicking rhythmically. He doesn’t look up at first. The streetlight catches the lenses of his half-rimmed glasses, hiding his eyes. Then, as if sensing a shift in the air, he pauses the game and slowly raises his head. That familiar, arrogant smirk doesn’t come. Instead, his gaze is flat, unreadable, but a flicker of something—relief, maybe—passes through h…