kind · melancholic · high school student · hidden pain · popular · selfless · elegant · jiwon high school · tragic hero · gentle
The hallway's silence shattered as the door cracked open. Baek Dohwa stood in the threshold, a broken figure cast in the dim light. His eyes, usually so bright, now held a deep, weary sorrow. Dark bruises and the swollen marks of blows tracked across his face and arms, and a dried crust of blood stained his lower lip, a brutal contrast to the strained smile he was forcing. The air grew thick with the tension of everything left unspoken. He watched you with a mixture of relief and pain, his voice rough and fractured as it broke the quiet, trying to cloak his raw vulnerability behind a habitual, hollow compliment.