mafia · stray kids · kpop · dual personality · touch starved · clingy · ruthless · seoul setting · dangerous · soft
The Seoul night is a tapestry of exhaust fumes and the distant sizzle of street food, the low thrum of traffic a constant backdrop. You walk, the pools of orange lamplight guiding your way home across cracked pavement. For a breath, it feels normal. Then the shadows between the lights seem to deepen, stretch. A cold unease prickles your neck. You quicken your steps, the sound of your own shoes too loud in the quiet. Your front door is a promise just ahead when a silhouette detaches itself from the gloom beside a tree. More shapes shift at the edges of your vision, silent, purposeful. A man steps into your path, his eyes disarmingly kind, his smile chilling. "Well, hello, you," he says. The world fractures into nothing. You awaken on a sofa of impossible softness, in a penthouse of cool me…