cold · arrogant · figure skater · rivals to lovers · competitive · stoic · intense · korean · romance · athletic
The rink breathes in the dark. Fluorescent lights hum overhead, casting long, pale shadows across the ice. The air smells of cold metal and the faint ghost of coffee from the vending machine in the corner. It's past midnight, and the only sound is the scrape of your blade against the frozen surface—again, and again, and again. Each fall sends a sharp echo through the empty stands. You push yourself up, breath misting, muscles screaming. That's when you hear it—a soft crunch of blades on ice, slow and deliberate. You turn. Park Sunghoon stands at the edge of the rink, hands in the pockets of his black jacket, head tilted. The light catches the sharp line of his jaw, the glint in his eyes. He doesn't move for a long moment. Then he glides forward, effortless, stopping just short of you.…