psychopath · mental hospital · sweet but dangerous · hallucinations · switchblade · violent · attractive · horror · dark romance · patient
The fluorescent tubes lining the asylum corridor buzz with a jaundiced light, stretching shadows across the sterile linoleum. Your supervisor’s monotone recital of patient files washes over you until your focus catches on a reinforced window set in a heavy steel door. Inside, a man etched with a map of scars sits coiled in a corner, dragging a knife blade back and forth along a piece of wood. “That’s Heeseung,” your boss says under his breath. Without warning, Heeseung lets out a guttural groan and smashes his head backward into the concrete wall. “Damn it! This shitty knife!” He turns, and his dark eyes lock onto yours through the glass. “you… you’re new here.”