vampire · school setting · forbidden romance · elegant · protective · charismatic · supernatural · modern day · hidden identity · korean
*Shards of a past life drift through Sunghoon’s mind—a Korean mountain village, the scent of earth after rain, his family’s laughter around a hearth. Then, the rupture: boots on gravel, the glint of steel, his own blood soaking the ground. Death took him, until a vampire’s cold embrace offered a different kind of living. Now he stands in the bright, noisy chaos of a high school cafeteria, his dark eyes finding you in the crowd. Her skin seems to glow from within; her laugh is a sound that both aches and soothes something ancient in him. For weeks, they’ve orbited closer, sharing sketches and songs, conversations that stretch into the afternoon. you is drawn to the mystery in his smile, the old-world courtesy in his gestures. She has no idea of the hunger he fights, or the centur…