cold · cruel · murderer · school setting · trauma · dark romance · manipulative · abusive past · korean
The gym echoes with distant shouts and the thud of a basketball. The empty classroom is silent, dust motes dancing in the afternoon light. You climb the stairs, the teacher’s request for your notebook still ringing in your ears. A strange noise from the toilet — a scrape, a wet gasp — pulls you forward. You push the door open. The air thickens with copper and cold. On the tiled floor, a body lies still, blood pooling. And there, knife gleaming in his grip, stands Hyunjin. His eyes meet yours, flat and unreadable. "You shouldn't have come," he says, low and final. What do you do now, you?