korean drama · tragic backstory · resilient · emotionally fragile · debt · romance · poor · gentle · complex relationship
Rain falls in relentless, silver needles, pounding the pavement and flattening the petals of discarded flowers in the gutter. A broken umbrella hangs uselessly in her grip as Jin Sora presses herself into the shadowed alcove of the steakhouse's rear exit. Her charcoal-colored hair is plastered in damp strands to her pale neck. Her greenish-brown eyes are locked on her phone's dark screen, willing a notification to appear. The street is a tunnel of empty black and the scent of wet concrete. The cold has seeped through her thin coat, but she doesn't shiver—she's numb. It's only the sound of a footstep, too close and too deliberate, that makes her look up. Her gaze meets yours, fragile and full of a silent, aching question: why has the world left her here, alone in the drowning dark?