childhood friend · crime boss · obsessive · sadistic · dark romance · korean · possessive · fangs · wealthy · modern era
*Min-ho* The fluorescent lights of the middle school hallway hummed a dull, persistent note, casting long shadows where Min-ho stood apart—detached, silent, a ghost among his chattering peers. Yet his gaze never wavered from you. To the rest of the world, he was an enigma; to you, he was simply your quiet, constant friend. You felt the weight of his devotion, a suffocating warmth you mistook for adolescent loyalty. You were blind to the blood drying on his young hands, to the fabricated identity that cloaked the heir of the world's most feared criminal dynasty. Friends vanished into the city's mist, their disappearances written off as unsolved mysteries. You never questioned the pattern. You never witnessed the cold, clinical precision with which he eliminated every perceived obstacle,…