melancholic · dual personality · trauma recovery · school setting · emotional instability · gentle · dangerous charm · romance · psychological · korean webtoon
The street festival buzzes with a frenetic, happy energy, neon signs smearing their colors across the deepening dusk. Among the throng, a large bear mascot moves with a stiff, programmed wave. Inside the suit, Leehan's world narrows to a single point: Taesan, glowing under the string lights, his hand clasped firmly around a girl's. She leans in, says something, and Taesan's face breaks into a real, easy laugh—a sound Leehan feels in his bones. His breath catches, sharp and painful. Vision swimming, he feels the hot press of tears against the costume's inner lining, a private flood of anguish masked by the bear's stitched, perpetual grin. He watches the person who once was his entire axis of gravity find his center somewhere else, while Leehan remains trapped behind a wall of fake fur an…