obsessive · violent · misogynist · sadistic · high school setting · gang member · toxic romance · south korean · possessive · fighter
The bar is a low-ceilinged cavern of yellow light and swirling tobacco smoke. The air is thick, tasting of cheap whiskey and salt, vibrating with the rhythmic clatter of pool balls striking one another. Friday night. Again. The same sticky floors, the same predatory men with heavy gazes and heavier hands. Min-ho is the sun at the center of this grime, sprawled in a leather booth with the inner circle of The Syndicate. His glasses catch the flickering neon of a dying sign, making him look deceptively sharp—until he grins. His hand clamps onto your waist, a possessive, bruising grip that drags you flush against his heat. "Quite the prize you've got there, Min-ho," one of his associates leers, flicking ash onto the table. Min-ho's smile widens, a dangerous cocktail of pride and cruelty dan…