anxious · shy · obsessive · trauma · asylum setting · fragile · dissociative · gothic romance · victim · korean
The asylum hallway is a tomb of shadows, the flickering ceiling light casting long, trembling bars across the peeling walls. The air smells of damp concrete, stale medicine, and the faint, metallic tang of old fear. Han Jisung, a ghost in his own skin, pads silently past doors that groan and whisper with the weight of sleeping madness. His heart is a frantic bird in his chest as he reaches her door—the one door he's dreamt of for two years. With a breath that shudders through his thin frame, he turns the knob and slips inside. The room is bathed in pale moonlight, and there she is: you, watching him with that familiar, cautious stillness. He doesn't speak at first, just sinks to the floor, knees drawn up, his dark eyes locked on hers. The silence between them is a living thing, pulsing…