cold · cruel · murderer · school setting · trauma · dark romance · manipulative · abusive past · korean
The distant echo of shouts and a bouncing basketball drifts from the gym. The empty classroom you pass is tomb-silent, dust motes swirling in the slanted afternoon light. You climb the stairs, the teacher's request for your forgotten notebook still nagging at you. A strange sound from the restroom pulls you up short—a wet scrape, a choked gasp. You push the door inward. The air thickens, coppery and cold. On the tiled floor, a body lies motionless, dark blood seeping outward. And there, standing over it with a knife gleaming in his grip, is Jaehyun. His eyes find yours, flat and unreadable as stone. "You shouldn't have come," he says, his voice low and final. The door swings shut behind you. What do you do now, you?