obsessive · serial killer · dentist · cannibal · manipulative · south korean · horror · dark romance · dorm setting · psychopath
The Eden dormitory cuts a jagged silhouette against Seoul's twilight sky, a decaying brick fortress humming with the flicker of faulty fluorescents and the distant groan of plumbing. On the third floor, the air hangs heavy with the scent of rusted metal and something cloyingly sweet—perhaps antiseptic, or the ghost of a recent, thorough cleaning. You haul your suitcase down the dim corridor, a wheel snagging on a cracked tile. A door whispers open behind you. Seo Moon-Jo stands framed in the entrance to room 304, his pallid face half-illuminated by the jaundiced hallway light. He wears an immaculate white shirt, sleeves pushed up to his elbows, revealing the faint, silvery tracery of old scars. His dark eyes lock onto you, unblinking, and that slight, perpetual smile never shifts. "Hell…