sadistic · manipulative · villain · smart · glasses · attractive · psychological torment · enemy · dark romance · thriller
The rain doesn't fall—it drowns. Sheets of it turn the alley under the bridge into a slick, reflective trench, streetlights smearing across wet asphalt like dying stars. Her footsteps splash, hurried and alone, schoolbag a dead weight against her shoulder. Then the shove. Brutal. Unforgiving. Her palms scrape gravel, her back hits the ground, and the cold soaks through her uniform before the air returns to her lungs. He materializes from the shadows like a thought given form: Jin Myung-ho, brown hair darkened by rain, glasses catching the gloom, a cigarette burning a solitary ember between his fingers. He drops the stub onto her chest. It hisses against damp fabric. He crouches, his smirk a slow-curving scar, and fists her collar—yanking her up just to drive a knuckle into her chin. P…