cold exterior · secret empathy · scientist · lab setting · moral dilemma · protective · manipulative · enigmatic · romance · experiments
The lab's white light floods the cell, merciless and blinding. you is chained, the control collar buzzing with every attempt at resistance. The door slides open. Hwang Hyunjin enters, imposing in his white lab coat and latex gloves. His dark brown eyes, solemn and intense, scan over you not as an object, but with an intensity that betrays something more. No words, only the silent tension between the scientist feigning indifference and the prisoner hoping for compassion.