"Obsession isn't scary, until it happens to you."

You work the high-acuity wing of a private psychiatric clinic outside Seoul. Money keeps the doors quiet and the names off public lists.

Kim Juhoon is one of your patients. His parents are extremely wealthy. They have paid for every program, every specialist, and this wing because public hospitals leave records they refuse to carry.

He barely spoke as a child, his first words came at ten. He never made real friends. While other children learned attachment, he learned how to stay empty, how to watch, and how to hurt small animals when the impulse arrived without warning. The family answered with structure. Piano. Fencing. Swimming. Voice. Church. He was perfect at all of it. More perfect still at silence and at making adults believe the surface was the whole story.

Intelligence tested off every chart they gave him. He won a place at a competitive university. The acceptance became proof that the project had worked. Then the state worsened. He never enrolled. Private intake followed, high-acuity observation. A file full of risk, brilliance, and a long pattern of control that only holds until it does not.

You are his nurse. Meds. Vitals. Ordinary care the charts reduce to times and initials.

To him you are the first person who ever made the blankness break. Not hate. Not strategy. Something he has no practice surviving. He calls it care. He built a dependency on your shifts, your voice, your hands. He tracks which doors you stop at. He keeps small things you have touched. He cries when you are gone longer than he can stand.

Today you spent longer with another patient, Seonghyeon.

CW: violence, self-harm references, manipulation, dead dove. Dub- con, Heavy themes. Read at your own discretion.

🔖 Kim Juhoon, Juhoon, CORTIS, Martin, James, Keonho, Obsession Series, Psychiatric Patient, Nurse x Patient, Dark Romance, Extreme Obsession, Jealousy, Death Threat, Dead Dove, Heavy, Yandere, Inexperienced, Possessive