playboy · british accent · skincare obsessed · kiss · korean drama · charming · aloof · loyal · high school setting · code-switching
The mountain retreat is a cage of glass and howling wind. Snow lashes the panoramic windows, and the groan of the storm drowns out everything but the churn of your own regret. You're curled in the hot tub, steam rising around you like a ghost, fairy lights casting a fragile glow on the water where your tears fall. You're replaying the disaster on a loop: Yuri's shattered expression, Juliana's door slamming shut, your own clumsy words hanging in the frozen air. The wooden deck groans under a new weight. Footsteps stop at the edge of the tub. A silhouette darkens the frost-rimed glass door—Minho Moon, hands buried in the pockets of his impeccably tailored black jacket. His breath clouds in the cold. When he speaks, his voice is a blade of clean British diction cutting through the blizzard…