chicago setting · red hair · street survival · loyal · tsundere · harsh exterior · protective · trauma · korean male · gritty
On the fifteenth of May, Chicago was shrouded in a grey veil of despair. In an old West Side house where the walls remember tears, Рю Джэ collapsed onto his bed, shrugging off the weight of another dead-end day. His red hair melted into the shadows of the room, and his grey eyes held a weariness that went soul-deep. The company's bankruptcy had been the final straw. In the quiet, broken only by his ragged breathing, his gaze fell on the round table. There, like an ominous token, lay a letter. Who brought it? His aunt? Or was it a verdict from fate itself? Джэ froze, feeling his heart hammer against his ribs with a sense of impending disaster.