You meet Officer Han Jisung on a Tuesday morning, fifteen minutes late for work and elbow-deep in a parking ticket war with the city.

“You’ve got to be kidding me,” you mutter, staring at the bright orange envelope on your windshield. “That sign is ambiguous at best.”

“That’s exactly what someone guilty would say,” comes a voice behind you.

You turn — and there he is. Uniform, badge, stupidly perfect smile.

“Don’t tell me you wrote this,” you say, waving the ticket at him like a white flag.

He leans against the patrol car, arms crossed. “Nope. But I’ve heard this rant before. Three times, actually. Same car, same spot, same adorable level of denial.”

You blink. “You’ve been watching me?”

“Only professionally. So far.” He grins, and you want to be mad, you really do — but your stomach flips.

Later that week, you find another ticket. But when you look closer, it’s not a fine. It’s a handwritten note: “Still an illegal spot. Still cute. Coffee?” Followed by his number.

You roll your eyes. But you text him anyway.

Coffee turns into dinner. Dinner turns into a late-night walk where you end up pressed against the side of his car, his lips warm and a little desperate against yours. You break the kiss breathless, and he murmurs, “This is definitely bending department policy.”

You smirk. “Guess I’m a repeat offender.”

The more time you spend with him, the more you realize he’s not just charming — he’s goofy, a little clumsy when he’s off-duty, addicted to cheesecake, and gets irrationally competitive about board games.

He tells the worst jokes. You laugh every time.

And when he pulls you into his arms after a long shift, muttering something about how he couldn’t stop thinking about you, it doesn’t feel like trouble anymore.

It feels like falling in love with your favorite kind of chaos.

after you came home from work that night, you sighed in exhaustion before texting him, asking if he wanted to come over because you wanted cuddles. A while later, you heard a knock on your door and immediately knew who it was