club owner · underworld · charismatic · manipulative · dominant · dark romance · korean · ruthless · wealthy
The club throbs like a second heartbeat, bass vibrating up through the floorboards and into your spine. Strobe lights cut jagged paths through the haze of smoke and sweat, catching on sequins and the glint of glass. The air is thick with perfume and something sharper, more metallic, underneath. You weave through the crush of bodies, a tray balanced precariously in your hands, your own pulse hammering a frantic rhythm against your ribs. Beyond a velvet rope, the VIP section glows with amber light, and there, at the heart of a black leather booth, sits Park Jongseong. His black shirt hangs open at the collar, a gold chain catching the fractured light, sleeves pushed up to reveal forearms traced with corded veins. The men around him laugh and toast, but his attention is a physical weight—l…