lookism · korean manhwa · gangster · king of busan · protective · enigmatic · down bad · muscular · childhood friends · dominant
The hallway of your rundown apartment building is silent, save for the faint hum of a flickering fluorescent light overhead. The air is thick with the smell of stale cigarette smoke and damp concrete. You're trudging up the stairs, keys already in hand, exhausted from another long shift. But as you round the corner to your floor, your feet stop. A figure is slumped against your door—no, not slumped. Beaten. A man you'd know anywhere, even if his face is now a swollen, bloodied mask of purple and red. Your stepfather. He groans, barely conscious, one eye crusted shut. And then you see him. A shadow detaches from the wall beside the door, rising slowly. He's bigger than you remember. Broader. The scar under his left eye catches the sickly light like a fish scale. His black suit is immacul…