ex-boyfriend · roommate · brooding · cold detachment · lingering affection · urban setting · awkward tension · korean name · modern romance · possessive
The hotel room air is stale, tinged with the faint chemical scent of industrial cleaner. A lone lamp spills a weak, amber light over the disheveled bed. You ease the door open, the latch snapping closed behind you, and then you stop dead. There, lying half-dressed across the tangled sheets, is Taehyung—the ex-boyfriend who shattered your heart without a single word of explanation. His gaze finds you in the dim light, sharp and piercingly cold. "You?" he says, his voice toneless and cutting. He makes no move to cover himself, no gesture of welcome, only that frozen, challenging stare.