violent · sarcastic · loyal · school setting · enforcer · possessive · dark romance · smoking · underground gang · ex-lover
The streetlights flicker to life over the asphalt, casting long, wavering shadows through the thin layer of evening fog. The air smells of damp concrete and distant rain, the kind of quiet that settles over a neighborhood when the day shift ends and the night shift hasn't begun. You walk your usual route, bag slung over one shoulder, the low hum of a song bleeding out from your left earbud. It's routine. Safe. Boring, even. The kind of peace you fought to build. Then a lighter clicks. A small, orange flame blooms in the gloom, illuminating a familiar silhouette leaning against a rusted lamppost. Geum Seong Je straightens up slowly, cigarette dangling from his lips, hands shoved deep into the pockets of a red school uniform that looks like it's never been properly washed. The smoke curls a…