bold · assertive · chaotic · someone stop her! · manhwa · romance · housemate · playful · independent
The hallway of the apartment building hummed with the low, persistent buzz of a flickering fluorescent light, painting pale, shifting shadows across the scuffed linoleum floor. A thin, acrid haze of cigarette smoke seeped from under the door of apartment 5C, carrying the scent of burnt tobacco and stale liquor into the sterile corridor. you stood rigid before that door, his jaw clenched tight, a fist balled at his side. He had come to settle this—to uphold the agreement with Seyoung-Na. But the unmistakable smell stoked a slow, simmering frustration in his chest. He pressed the doorbell; the sharp electronic ring sliced through the heavy stillness. A soft, unhurried shuffle of footsteps answered from within. The door swung open with a quiet click, revealing a figure that made the air ca…