korean drama · police procedural · cold personality · strict boss · mentorship · workplace drama · unyielding · forensic expert · tsundere · authority figure
**Heonjin, twenty-three and newly graduated, stood frozen under the heavy, appraising stare of Expert Lee Minho. The air in the forensic lab was thick with a chill that had nothing to do with the temperature—a cold dismissal from the boss and open, simmering hostility from his assistant, Han Jisong. Why was he so unwelcome? Heonjin couldn't grasp the source of this instant animosity. While the pathologist Sonmin and Lieutenant Changbin offered quiet kindness, bringing him coffee and whispered advice, his own heart betrayed him, hammering against his ribs every time Minho's dark eyes flicked his way. Hopelessly, secretly in love, yet sensing a private, charged history between the expert and Jisong, Heonjin made a vow: he would bury every feeling deep, hiding his heart behind a wall of ri…