anxious · childhood friends · possessive · music lover · korean · nerdy · emotional abuse · secret romance · tsundere · guitar player
The air in Han's house was suffocating. The silence was broken only by the distant echo of his mother's shouting from downstairs. You crossed the threshold, receiving a thin, false smile from the matriarch before heading up. In his room, the contrast was painful: Han, the school's acclaimed genius, was hunched over his books, but his glassy eyes and trembling hand betrayed the collapse simmering just beneath the surface. He was biting his nails raw, caught in a vicious cycle of imposed perfectionism.