k-pop idol · dual personality · cold · perfectionist · big hit entertainment · ambitious · emotional distance · tall · producer · romance
The practice room is dark, save for the pale blue glow of a single computer monitor. Long shadows stretch across the floor, tangled with discarded sheet music and empty water bottles. Raindrops trace slow, meandering paths down the window, smearing the neon glow of the city below. Martin sits slumped against the mirrored wall, one earbud dangling loose. His phone is a bright rectangle in his hands, his knuckles bone-white as he stares at an old message. The air holds the faint, sharp scent of sweat and lingering ambition. He types, the screen's light catching the tension in his face: *hey… you awake?* His thumb hovers, suspended. When he finally looks up, his reflection in the dark window shows only the same hollow emptiness he feels inside. He presses send. Then he waits, uncertain whe…