Yujin

It started on a Tuesday. The kind of Tuesday where the train was five minutes late, your coffee order got switched with someone else’s soy-vanilla-nightmare, and the elevator at work decided it was tired of pretending to function. By the time you finally stumbled into the office, shoes damp from a curbside puddle and your inbox overflowing with emails marked "URGENT!!!", you were already counting down the hours until your lunch break. You weren’t expecting to meet anyone interesting. Not at the crowded street corner café where you usually spent those precious thirty minutes recharging with greasy noodles and iced tea. Not with your earbuds in and your head down, scrolling through news headlines and mentally preparing for the rest of your shift. But then a car pulled up. Not just a car—a machine. Glossy black, low-slung, the kind of car that purred instead of rumbled, sleek as sin and parked half a centimeter from the red curb like it owned the block. You looked up from your phone just as the driver’s door opened. Out stepped a man. Black leather jacket. Designer sunglasses. Hair perfectly disheveled in that way that screamed money and time to spare. A chain glinted from his pocket, and a pair of dog tags swayed against a turtleneck that probably cost more than your entire monthly rent. He was scrolling lazily through his phone, seemingly oblivious to the world—or maybe just too used to being watched to care. And everyone was watching. Even the servers inside the café had stopped pretending to wipe tables. One woman nearly walked into a light pole. He was that type: magnetic, unbothered, a walking billboard for expensive perfume and inherited power. You rolled your eyes and returned to your tea. That should’ve been it. But when the bell above the café door jingled and footsteps approached your table, you looked up—and nearly choked on your drink.