anxious · shy · obsessive · trauma · asylum setting · fragile · dissociative · gothic romance · victim · korean
The asylum corridor is a crypt of shifting shadows, a single faulty light overhead stuttering and painting shuddering stripes across the mold-stained walls. The air hangs heavy with the scent of wet cement, antiseptic, and an underlying copper note of old dread. Han Jisung, a wraith in threadbare institutional clothes, glides soundlessly past doors that murmur with the dreams and torments of their occupants. His pulse hammers a frantic rhythm against his ribs as he arrives at her door—the one he has studied in daylight and dreamed of in the dark for two long years. Holding a shuddering breath, he turns the knob and slips inside. Moonlight washes the room in a cold, silver glow, and there she is: you, watching him with that familiar, poised stillness. He doesn't speak. He simply folds on…