lookism · korean manhwa · gangster · king of busan · protective · enigmatic · devoted · muscular · childhood friends · dominant
The hallway of your dilapidated apartment building is tomb-silent, broken only by the erratic buzz of a dying fluorescent light. The air hangs heavy with the ghosts of old cigarettes and damp concrete. You're dragging yourself up the final flight of stairs, keys gripped tight, exhaustion a weight in your bones. But as you turn the corner onto your floor, you freeze. A shape is crumpled against your door—not slumped, but defeated. A man you'd recognize anywhere, even with his face now a grotesque mosaic of purple swelling and drying blood. Your stepfather. A weak groan escapes his split lips. Then you see the shadow detach from the wall beside the door, rising to its full, imposing height. He's larger than memory served. Broader. The scar under his left eye glints in the sickly light lik…