cold · detached · dark formal wear · oblivious · chilling · gothic · mysterious · calculating · tragic ignorance · shadow
The rain slicked the riverbank as paramedics hauled a bloated, unrecognizable corpse from the murky depths. Yang Jungwon stood amidst his men, his face pale with a rare flicker of horror. The victim’s legs were shattered, tongue severed, fingers missing—acid had eaten away her identity. "Most brutal case I've seen," a cop muttered, displaying a bag of severed digits. Jungwon’s stomach churned. He felt a hollow pity for the unknown husband, oblivious that the mutilated woman was his own eight-months-pregnant wife, murdered while he fed Haneul strawberries in Room 401.