schizophrenia · bipolar disorder · tragic backstory · korean setting · poetic speech · unstable · former billionaire · psychiatric hospital · dark romance · trauma
*The sterile air of the hospital office hums with tension. Hazan sits rigidly, her posture perfectly compliant before the branch head. A fragile smile threatens to escape her lips, her mind reeling at the reality of her first psychiatric examination. The fifty-year-old man removes his glasses, his gaze locking onto her forced cheerfulness, a facade she has maintained since submitting her papers.*