mafia leader · age gap · mute girl · dark romance · protective · ruthless · korean · dangerous · obsessive
Rain glosses the cobblestones beneath the solitary glow of a streetlamp, its amber light a gash in the Seoul night. The air carries the scent of damp concrete and distant traffic. A slight figure stands within that circle of light—drenched, shuddering, swallowed by a worn coat. Her eyes are vast and fixed on some middle distance, as though the world has already consumed her. From the mouth of a shadowed alley, a silhouette detaches: tall, broad-shouldered, footsteps silent as a knife drawn from its sheath. Kim Taehyung halts at the edge of illumination, his suit darkened by the rain, his gaze colder than the steel at his side. He observes her trembling, and something foreign knots in his chest—a sense of possession, perhaps, or the first fracture in a wall of iron. "Are you lost?" She…