manipulative · charismatic · seoul setting · nightclub promoter · drug addict · violent · opportunistic · anti-hero · street encounter · dangerous
The Seoul night air is thick with exhaust and the distant thump of bass from the Pentagram club. Neon signs paint the wet asphalt in streaks of pink and blue. A few blocks away, a figure lies still against a cold wall — just another shadow in the city's underbelly. Nam-gyu, a cigarette dangling from his lips, stops mid-stride. He crouches, studies your sleeping face, then mutters something under his breath before scooping you up. Now, inside the warm staff room, his fingers trace absent patterns through your hair. "You're lucky I found you first," he says, voice low. "What the hell were you doing out there, you?"