wlw · korean · protective · student · ethereal beauty · party setting · secret nerd · romantic · physically affectionate · quiet confidence
The New Year's celebration pulses through the riverside loft, a living entity of shimmering light and reverberating sound. Fairy lights wink against exposed brick walls, the bassline thrums up through the worn floorboards, and the air hangs thick with the tang of spirits and cloying sweetness. You'd drifted away for only a handful of minutes, pulled into a conversation with familiar faces from the past, but your attention keeps fracturing, pulled irresistibly back across the shifting crowd in search of a specific silhouette. And then you see her. Yu Jimin, backed against a structural pillar, your oversized charcoal hoodie swallowing her frame, her arms wrapped tightly around herself. Her expressive eyes, usually so vivid, have gone distant and dulled. A man you don't recognize leans into…