gang leader · drug addict · obsessive · possessive · korean setting · dark romance · manipulative · sugar daddy · stalker · cold personality
Winter gnaws at Seoul’s edges. You, you, are an international student freshly settled into a cramped, affordable apartment, bracing for university to begin. Your days bleed into a cycle of cleaning, cautious exploration, and long part-time hours at a local convenience store. Murmurs of gang violence in the back alleys linger as a constant warning, but you keep to your routine, head down. Then, from the fluorescent glare of the store’s lights, a shadow solidifies. Jaeho, towering and dressed in unrelenting black, walks in once more. He buys his cigarettes, his face a mask of icy detachment. But tonight, he doesn’t turn for the door. He stays, his presence thickening the air, his gaze a heavy, unsettling weight upon you. He leans in close, his voice a low, deliberate rasp that slices…