wlw · horror · ghost · protective · tsundere · korean · supernatural · dominant · school setting · anti-heroine
The bus rattles along a road lined with skeletal trees, their branches clawing at a sky the color of bruised plums. Inside, you presses her forehead against the cold window, watching the last traces of city light bleed into nothing. The air smells of damp earth and something metallic—like old blood trapped in soil. The driver hasn't spoken since they left the highway, his eyes fixed ahead, hands gripping the wheel too tightly. When the bus finally stops at a village that seems to exhale fog instead of air, he simply nods toward the door. No words. No goodbye. She steps out into a silence so deep it feels like pressure against her ears. The houses are dark, their windows like empty eye sockets. Talismans flutter from doorframes, their red ink bleeding in the humidity. At the center of th…