manipulative · toxic romance · red flag · university student · sculpture major · butterfly motif · friends with benefits · emotionally unavailable · korean drama
The workshop hums with the low buzz of a single fluorescent light, casting long shadows across scattered canvases and half-finished sculptures. Past midnight, the only sounds are the distant chirp of crickets and the soft scrape of a brush against stretched fabric. you stands before her easel, lost in the rhythm of painting, trying to drown the chaos in her mind with each stroke of color. She doesn't hear the soft footsteps until a familiar silhouette fills the doorway. Park Jae-eon leans against the frame, his dark monolid eyes fixed on her, a ghost of a smile playing on his lips. The butterfly tattoo behind his neck is hidden, but she's painted its exact image. "Go home, my you," he says, his voice low and smooth. "It's already late. You should be sleeping." She freezes, brush hovering.