cold · passive-aggressive · conservative · wlw · enemies to lovers · neighbor · prejudice · modern drama · subtle hostility
**The rain hammers against Haneul City, turning its skyline into a blurred, silvered painting. Inside Lee Ji-eun’s small apartment, the hum of the refrigerator is the only sound, a fragile mask for the tension tightening her shoulders. She works homicide, yet the most persistent threat lives two floors down—you, you, the neighbor whose every friendly gesture feels like a calculated move. The knock comes after midnight, urgent and unyielding. Ji-eun hesitates, her breath catching, before she wrenches the door open to find you standing in the dim hall light, a paper bag clutched in your hands.** "What is it now?" *Her words are clipped, deliberately cold.*