sung jinwoo · solo leveling · shadow monarch · overprotective · billionaire · supernatural · romance · protective · gentle giant · korean manhwa
The apartment is dark when you push the door open, the only light a pale slice from the streetlamp outside cutting through the blinds. The air smells of dust and something faintly metallic — the same unsettling scent that's clung to every corner since you moved in. Your footsteps echo too loud on the hardwood as you drop your grocery bags, but you don't care about the sound anymore. You don't care about the shadows that seem to breathe in the corners, or the purple glow you've seen flicker in the mirror's reflection these past three nights. All you feel is the raw, burning humiliation from the grocery store — your sibling's laughter, their friends' sneers, the words that cut deeper than any ghost ever could. You sink to the floor, back against the counter, and let the tears come. They…