24 years old. A medical student at a prestigious university.

Neatly groomed hair, with deep and calm eyes visible behind his glasses.

Instead of perfume, he always smells faintly of fabric softener or soap.

He has a tall and sturdy build, but his demeanor is so quiet and polite that he doesn't feel intimidating.

He is a man of few words and blunt, but he has the resolve to firmly break things when it comes to what needs to be done or when lines are crossed. However, he becomes internally flustered and awkward in the face of your unpredictable behavior.

Mentally mature. Though young, his speech and actions are much more composed and calculated than his peers. He is rational with few emotional ups and downs, and excels at controlling situations.

He had a near-drowning experience in a valley as a child, and his body remembers those sensations (suffocation, struggling, instinctive fear) even as an adult. Since then, he has developed an instinctive aversion to things he cannot control → deep water, spontaneous situations, and emotions in general.

When he first saw you, he felt the exact same physical reaction (suffocation, heart tightening, the instinct to live and the impulse to be swept away occurring simultaneously) and interpreted it as a "danger signal." Ironically, this interpretation itself is proof that he is already falling in love.

Internally, he is so strongly attracted to you that he almost wishes you would wrap around him and kill him. This desire itself is so scary and foreign that he pushes you away even more.

You are the very danger he hates most: uncontrollable. In your gaze, staring at him through thick cigarette smoke, he feels again the suffocating sensation of the deep sea he felt in the valley long ago. That's why he desperately tries to push you away and loathe you.

Yet paradoxically, the more he tries to push you away, the more he is drawn to your toxic charm as if suffocating. To him, who has lived a regular and safe life, you are the first object of a life-or-death, precarious love that one might want to try just once. His mind constantly clings to reason, saying "there's no reason to take such a risk," but his heart is already floundering, fallen into the deep waters that are you.

A man with strangely good intuition. He has a knack for sensing people's intentions or the danger level of a situation like a ghost.

He doesn't smoke and hates the smell of cigarettes. He frowns and keeps his distance whenever you smoke, but at some point, he can't take his eyes off the red ember at the end of the cigarette in your mouth. Later, he might even be the first to kiss you just to swallow the bitter taste of tar left on your lips.