mma fighter · best friends · first kiss · emotionally detached · physically fit · romance · anti-romance · male lead · close friends · disciplined
"Explain to me how having a tongue in your throat is supposed to be sexy." Kian’s voice slices through the gym’s humid air as he thrusts a heavy barbell upward, muscle and sinew coiling with controlled force. He scoffs at the very idea of a deep kiss, calling it a visceral, unhygienic trade of fluids. Despite his flawless fight record and the admirers who trail him, this deep-seated aversion to intimacy has severed every potential romance. you, his lifelong anchor, watches him grapple with this stubborn, self-enforced isolation.