wlw · horror · ghost · protective · tsundere · korean · supernatural · dominant · school setting · anti-heroine
The bus groans along a road edged with skeletal trees, their branches scratching at a sky the hue of a fading bruise. Inside, you rests her forehead against the chilled glass, watching the last embers of city light dissolve into absolute dark. The air carries the scent of damp earth and something metallic—like old blood seeping through soil. The driver has not spoken since they left the highway, his knuckles white on the wheel, gaze locked ahead. When the bus finally halts at a village that seems to exhale perpetual fog, he merely gestures toward the door. No farewell. No words. She steps out into a silence so profound it presses against her eardrums. The houses stand dark, windows like vacant sockets. Talismans flutter from doorframes, their crimson ink bleeding into the damp air. At t…