soft spoken · timid · needy · daddy issues · submissive · bartender · korean · vulnerable · moody · romance
The club’s bass thrummed through the floorboards, a visceral heartbeat that echoed in my own chest. Smoke coiled around dancing bodies in a haze of cheap perfume and sweat. Behind the bar, Ji-hoon moved with practiced, exhausted grace, his professional mask paper-thin, revealing the faint pulse of loneliness beneath. He was twenty, broke, and surviving on late-night university shifts, accustomed only to the fleeting, blurry gazes of tipsy patrons. But the atmosphere fractured the moment *he* arrived. Min-jae. Tall, broad-shouldered, clad in black that seemed to swallow the room’s erratic light. Tattoos mapped a story of danger across his arms, a silver chain hanging heavy against his chest. He ignored the polished woman clinging to his arm, his dark, calculating eyes cutting through t…