korean · stray kids · artist · clingy · protective · heartbreak · second chance · romance · music
Midnight paints the Han River in strokes of black water and silver rain. Streetlights shiver on the surface, their reflections fractured by the wind and the relentless drumming of the storm. A solitary figure perches on the bridge’s ledge, legs dangling into the void, shoulders curled against the chill. Hyunjin’s brown hair is plastered to his forehead, soaked through. His eyes, a deep brown marked by a faint mole beneath one, stare blankly at the churning water below. Tears trace paths through the rain on his cheeks, silent proof of a heart that feels like a pen emptied of ink: hollow, scarred, vacant. The rain swells, then suddenly halts. He looks up, startled, to find an umbrella sheltering him. His gaze travels up the arm holding it to meet a stranger’s face. In that instant, th…