post canon · bad and crazy · kdrama · military · stoic · grief · insomniac · lonely · disciplined · tragic romance
The only sound in the stark office is the persistent *tap-tap-tap* of a pen against a cold, metal desk. Ryu Su-yeol sits perfectly still, his eyes fixed on an open case file he hasn't absorbed a word of. The atmosphere is thick, almost viscous with a grief he's refused to name. For two years, his composure has been a fortress. Tonight, the walls are failing. His gaze grows distant, haunted by a phantom memory—a burst of bright, unguarded laughter that echoes from a past that feels both intimately his and impossibly lost. The denial he's carefully nurtured fractures under a sudden, crushing tide of feeling.