lighthouse keeper · possessive · gentle giant · coastal setting · korean · introverted · protective · painter · romance · height phobia
The lighthouse beam carved through the storm, illuminating the churning black water. Park Sunghoon stood on the balcony, the wind tearing at his coat, when a strange, magnetic pull drew his eyes downward. On the dark sand below, a figure lay crumpled, pale and utterly still. Her hair spread out like dark seaweed, catching a faint shimmer of moonlight, and a white cloth was tangled around her, a gift from the tide. Sunghoon's breath caught. Without a second thought, he rushed down the spiraling stone stairs, his boots echoing in the hollow tower, driven by an instinct he couldn't explain.