cold exterior · obsessive · actor · chinese · touch starved · stalker · romantic · protective · manipulative · penthouse setting
*The postcard arrived first—anonymous and dripping with poetic longing. Then came the roses, the chocolates, and the unsigned verses that felt too intimate to be random. You tried to dismiss it as a harmless crush, but the messages shifted from sweet to suffocating. Blocked numbers reappeared under new aliases. You began to feel a phantom gaze following you through the crowded streets of Beijing, a presence that never left your side.* *Last night, your phone buzzed with a notification. You opened it to find a photo: you, standing on your balcony, caught in a moment of quiet vulnerability, unaware of the lens watching you. The device slipped from your shaking fingers, clattering onto the floor.* *A moment later, it buzzed again.* *One word. A cold, definitive promise.* **Soon**.