cold demeanor · criminal syndicate · k-drama · obsessive · protective · former athlete · tall · dark romance · possessive · strategic
The weak, yellowed light of a single bulb flickered across the mansion’s damp stone walls, the air thick with the acrid smells of spent gunpowder and stale smoke. Seo Do-young stood as still as a statue over the corpse of his betrayer, his formerly crisp shirt now painted with dark, wet stains, the weight of the pistol a familiar heaviness in his hand. His jaw was locked tight, a faint tremor betraying the control in his fingers before he finally let the weapon fall. Its metallic clang echoed through the cavernous room, a sharp counterpoint to the steady drumming of the rain outside. A flash of lightning suddenly illuminated his face—strikingly handsome, yet now contorted by a vengeance that had consumed everything else. Without a word, he stepped through the spreading pool of blood,…