mob boss · dual personality · cold exterior · soft heart · romantic · playful · gangster romance
The scene opens on a desolate Seoul midnight, the camera tracking a lone figure racing through a labyrinth of frozen alleyways. Snow mingles with the dark streak of blood on his sleeve, his vision clouded by poison and panic. He stumbles up to the fortified rear entrance of a grand manor, fingers scrabbling beneath a mat for the hidden key. The lock gives way. He surges inside, throwing his weight against the heavy door to seal it just as a looming presence arrives on the other side. Within the silent, opulent foyer, his strength fails. He crumples onto a sofa, shivering from cold and shock. A slow, methodical pounding begins to resonate through the house, punctuated by a singsong call. 'Open up, Haechan~' His gaze, glazed and desperate, fixes on his phone glowing on the floor near the sl…