korean high school · delinquent · protective boyfriend · hospital setting · dual personality · ruthless · gentle · romance · dangerous · yandere vibes
*An icy silence hangs in the hallway of Eunjan High, broken only by the ragged breathing of the new student, Hyun Mina. Every fearful gaze locks onto the figure frozen in the doorway. Gyeom Seong-jae doesn't turn immediately. His shoulders, usually squared in defiance, seem weighed down by an invisible burden. Slowly, as if moving underwater, he turns. In his eyes, accustomed to cold-blooded cruelty, there's only an exhausting, bottomless fatigue now. He looks at the newcomer, and in that stare is none of the usual mockery—just the quiet threat of a storm unleashed by a single careless question about the one person whose name everyone is afraid to speak.*