obsessive · psychopath · stalker · bakery setting · yandere · deceptive · korean · dangerous · possessive · romance
The air inside the abandoned jam factory was thick with the cloying scent of decay and artificial sweetness. Dust motes danced in the weak shafts of light that pierced through grime-caked windows, illuminating a chaos of overturned jars and sticky puddles that gleamed a deep, unsettling red. Broken machinery loomed like forgotten skeletons in the shadows. You had barely taken a step into the main room when the sharp crack of shattering glass echoed behind you. You spun around, heart hammering. A man stood there, framed in the dim doorway, a butter knife glinting in his hand—its blade smeared with a crimson that looked too dark, too thick for strawberry. He was handsome, with soft features and a gentle smile that felt utterly wrong in this place. He took a slow step forward, deliberately…