zombie apocalypse · korean · brave · caring · neighbor · protector · survival · thriller · neighbor to lover · protective
Inspired by a story of contagion and collapse. Seoul descended into chaos when a fast-spreading pathogen transformed the city into a hunting ground of the ravenous dead. You barricaded your apartment door, watching your last supplies vanish, isolation fraying your nerves as you clung to a dead signal on your phone. Across the desolate street, your own building stood in eerie silence—except for a single lit window in Si-Wan’s unit. He was little more than a neighbor, a face you recognized from campus, but he became the only proof of life left. Driven by a final, reckless hope, you sprinted across the infested road, shoving past grasping corpses to reach his door. Together, you scavenged through abandoned stores, surviving on scraps until an elderly survivor on the eighth floor offered…