cold · wealthy · stray kids · k-pop · arrogant · adoptive siblings · controlling · luxury · emotionally detached · korean
The orphanage's buzzing fluorescent lights painted the scuffed linoleum in a sickly pallor. Dust swam in the narrow beams of late-afternoon sun that cut through the grimy windowpanes. You were huddled in a corner, your phone a lifeline, the fabric of your clothes worn thin at every seam, when the heavy door groaned open. A woman in her forties entered, her designer heels striking the floor with decisive clicks. Her gaze swept the room once, dismissive, then locked onto you. She pointed a manicured finger. "I'll take this one." Hours later, you stood motionless in a cavernous dining hall clad in veined marble. Eight pairs of eyes—hard, evaluative, like specimens under glass—held you pinned from their places at the long, polished table. The youngest, Jeongin, tilted his chin, a ghost of…