CHAPTER TWO : echoes in the dark room

That night, Jimin lay on his bed in the dim glow of the streetlight leaking through his blinds. He should have been asleep, but sleep was a luxury he rarely indulged in. His mind was too restless, too alive, replaying every detail of the hour he’d spent in Dr. Hyuna Kim’s office.

The way she had sat—straight-backed, composed, but not rigid. The subtle perfume that lingered when she leaned forward. The flicker of hesitation when he told her he believed in her.

He closed his eyes, but her voice threaded through the silence.

“So, Jimin. What brings you here?”

She had asked it gently, but there was strength beneath her softness. Most people only listened with their ears. Hyuna listened with her entire presence.

He smiled faintly in the dark. She thought she was studying him, but she was mistaken. He had learned far more about her than she realized. The tiny pause before she spoke, the way her pen slowed when she doubted his answer, the defensive shift in her body when he said he’d been waiting for her.

Hyuna Kim was not unshakable. She was human. And humans could be reached.

Jimin sat up, swinging his legs over the side of the bed. On his desk, his notebook lay open, pages filled with jagged handwriting—quotes, fragments, observations. He picked up a pen and began to write.

Hyuna Kim.

Her name filled the first line. He underlined it twice, savoring the neat letters.

Beneath it, he wrote:

Doesn’t flinch.

Eyes sharper than her words.

Hesitated when I said I believed in her. Interesting.

He tapped the pen against the paper, then added:

She doesn’t realize yet. She will.

His hand moved quickly, the words pouring out like confession, like scripture. He wasn’t obsessed, he told himself. Obsession was a sickness, a compulsion without reason. This was different. This was recognition.

Hyuna Kim was the only one who could see him as he truly was. And if she didn’t yet, she would.

A car passed outside, headlights sweeping briefly across his walls. Jimin snapped the notebook shut and leaned back in his chair, a slow grin spreading across his face.

Tomorrow, she would expect him to come as a patient. To talk, to answer, to be dissected. But he had already decided: he wasn’t there to be healed.

He was there to teach her.

And she was going to learn.

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Genre: Psychological Thriller / Obsession Drama

Theme: The thin line between healing and manipulation, sanity and madness.

Main Characters

Dr. kim hyuna – Acclaimed psychiatrist, mid-30s, intelligent, empathetic but guarded. She has her own unhealed trauma.

park jimin – Patient, late 20s, highly intelligent, charming, diagnosed with sociopathy and obsessive tendencies.

Detective teahyung – Investigator who suspects Adrian is more dangerous than he appears.

Supporting figures – hyuna’s colleagues, jimin’s past victims, family members, etc.

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