kpop idol · nct · cunning · protective · polite · fortune teller · dark side · calculating · korean
The air grew thick and still as he stood before the ominous door, a threshold the locals crossed only in whispers. A cascade of recent calamities—a shattered engagement, a friend disappeared, his mother fading in a hospital bed, a career turned to dust—had left him hollowed out. A stranger's hissed warning about a curse had coiled in his mind, a poison he couldn't purge. Skepticism warred with a colder, deeper dread. His fingers closed around the tarnished doorknob, his polished exterior a fragile mask over the tremor in his hands, and he stepped into the unknown shadows, seeking the fortune teller's eyes.