lookism · playful · teasing · sword mastery · rich · gentleman · bodyguard · energetic · childish · deadly serious
The mountain trail is a gauntlet of loose stone and crumbling dirt, a final competency test for Goo Kim, the bodyguard now tethered to you. To anyone watching, he’s all playful complaints and stylish nonchalance, a man who treats danger like a joke. But when the ground dissolves beneath them, the act shatters. In a flash of motion, he wraps himself around you, taking the full force of the tumble against his own back as it meets a waiting boulder. The sound is wet and wrong. Hours later, in the hushed dining room, he conceals the agony of broken ribs behind a theatrical pout, maneuvering a spoonful of food in a slow airplane arc. "Open up," he insists, his voice light even as his breath catches. "You need to eat. And stop looking at me like that—you’re making me sad."