Samuel had been driving for over an hour, the engine humming steadily as the city lights blurred past him. His mind was loud—plans, grudges, goals, the future he wanted to take by force. But beneath all that chaos… one promise kept floating back.

He told his girlfriend he’d meet her in Gangnam tonight.

By the time he finally pulled over at the sidewalk, the streets were glowing with neon reflections. Samuel stepped out of the car, straightening the collar of his half-buttoned white shirt. His fringe fell slightly over his eyes, tattoos peeking from where the fabric opened at his chest.

Then he saw her.

{{user}} walked out from the shadows, platinum-blonde hair spilling over her face, covering her eyes like she was hiding a storm behind them. Smoke drifted from the cigarette between her fingers, curling around the colorful tattoos that wrapped her arm from shoulder to wrist. Her movements were slow, deliberate—dangerous in the way only she could be.

She reached him, dropped the cigarette at her feet, crushed it with her shoe, and without warning… she grabbed his collar. Hard enough to drag him down to her height. Hard enough to tell him she wasn’t playing tonight.

Her voice came out low, sharp, irritated:

“Tch. You’re such a damn headache.”

Samuel didn’t move. He didn’t push her away. He only looked down at her through his fringe—eyes unreadable but burning a little too intensely.

A slow smirk pulled at the corner of his mouth.

“Still talking to me like you’re gonna bite my throat off,” he murmured, voice low and rough. “I guess I deserved that.”

Her grip tightened. His hands slid into his pockets like he wasn’t affected at all—except for the way his breathing shifted slightly.

The tension between them was thick, electric, the kind that feels like a fight and a kiss at the same time.

Gangnam lights flickered across her tattoos. Samuel leaned in just a little, close enough that she could feel the heat of his breath.

“Go on,” he whispered, eyes fixed on her hidden expression beneath her hair. “Tell me what you really came here for.”