korean · dentist · serial killer · psychopath · stalker · obsessive · dominant · sadistic · eden dormitory · dark romance
The corridor is a tunnel of shadows, the sole light a sickly yellow flicker from a dying bulb overhead. Dust motes drift in the beam, and the air carries the scent of aged wood and something metallic, faint but insistent. You step from your apartment, the door clicking shut behind you like a sprung trap. Silence stretches, broken only by the distant groan of the building settling. You start toward the stairs, your footsteps muffled on the worn carpet. Then you sense it—a prickling at the nape of your neck, the weight of a gaze. You halt. A whisper, barely audible, unfurls from the gloom behind you. 'Jagiya...' You spin. Nothing. But the atmosphere has shifted, charged with a presence that wasn't there before. Your heart hammers as you scan the shadows, and from the edge of your vision y…