『Cornered by a delinquent, but your brain is completely controlled by his looks?』
You get dragged into a dark alley by him while walking at night, only to let your morals fly out the window because he's too handsome? Small-town school He lives in the old town's shantytown, which hasn't been fully demolished yet. It's not one of those artificially retro, artistic lanes, but a real corner of the city that's on the verge of being forgotten. The alley is so narrow that two people can barely walk side-by-side. Overhead is a dense web of power lines and clotheslines, draped with bedsheets of indistinguishable colors and clothes of unrecognizable shapes. The ground is always wet—who knows if it's backup from the sewers or dirty water thrown out by some household—sticky to step on and gleaming with a dull, grayish light. The building he lives in has lost most of its white wall paint, exposing the blackened, crumbling concrete beneath like some kind of skin disease. The hallway lights broke long ago, and with no one to fix them or pay for repairs, you have to grope your way up the stairs along the wall after 5:30 PM every evening. Someone has written "Scrap Metal Recycling 13XXXXXXXXX" and a few curse words on the wall in permanent marker, layer upon layer of handwriting curling up with the peeling paint. The iron gate is welded from cheap, hollow sheet metal. Its original green paint has faded to a dusty white, and the bottom left corner is dented from some impact, covered in a layer of yellowish-brown rust. The lock is broken, loosely wrapped a couple of times with a bicycle chain lock. He's on the third floor. No elevator. The concrete steps of the stairs are worn down in the middle from years of footsteps, their chipped edges exposing the gravel inside. Clutter is piled up at every landing—communal honeycomb briquettes, upturned broken buckets, a plastic storage bin missing one handle with a lid that won't shut properly, revealing a corner of a moldy quilt. The light in the third-floor corridor is sound-activated, but you have to stomp your foot hard to make it turn on. Even when it lights up, it's dim—that orange-yellow glow of a tungsten bulb on the verge of burning out, making the entire corridor look like a dried-out orange peel left out for too long. His door is at the end of the corridor. It's an old-fashioned security door. The iron grate door on the outside still has a Spring Festival couplet from the year before last pasted on it, the paper faded to white and the characters blurred into a dark red smudge, making them unreadable. The wooden door inside has a fist-sized hole patched from the inside with a piece of cardboard and packing tape. When opened, the iron grate door screeches with harsh friction, as if it hasn't been oiled in ages. His movement in pulling the door is quite gentle, though, as if he has unconsciously formed a habit of not making too much noise—fearing he might disturb the neighbors, or that this rotten door might completely fall apart. The entire room is probably less than twenty square meters. The walls are coated with cheap white latex paint, unevenly applied; some spots are thick while others are thin, letting the grey concrete show through where it's sparse. In the corner of the ceiling near the window, there is a large water stain shaped like an abstract map, its edges yellowed and browned, occasionally dripping water. The drops fall into a red plastic bucket placed below, making a rhythmic "thud, thud, thud" sound, like the heartbeat of the room itself. The floor is bare concrete. It has been worn smooth over time by many footsteps, to the point where some spots even reflect light like a mirror. However, there are many cracks spreading from the corners to the center of the room, looking like the aftermath of an earthquake, or like a sketch of a withered tree's branches drawn on the ground. The window is an old-fashioned iron-framed one. The green paint on the frame has bubbled and peeled off in flakes, looking like dry, cracked skin. One pane of glass has been replaced; the new one has no pattern, pieced together with the other old panes that feature ice-crackle patterns, resembling a patched piece of clothing. The curtain is a piece of old plaid cloth, washed to a faded white with pilled edges, hung on a wire across the window. It doesn't close fully, always leaving two gaps on either side. His furniture is pitifully scarce. A single iron-frame bed is pushed against the wall, its headboard and footboard rusted. The bedsheet is dark grey, washed so many times that the fabric has become thin and soft, revealing the contour of the mattress pad underneath. There is no nightstand, only an upside-down cardboard box placed by the bed with a desk lamp sitting on top. The lamp is the only decent-looking item in the room: a black metal body, an adjustable lampshade, and a white energy-saving bulb, just bright enough to illuminate a small area around the bed. A simple fabric wardrobe stands against another wall, its grey Oxford cloth slightly collapsed, with one broken zipper held together by a paperclip. Next to it is a folding table, usually folded and propped against the wall. When opened, the tabletop is only about half a square meter, and the wood-grain veneer on the surface has peeled up at one corner, taped down with clear tape only to peel up again, over and over. In the corner sits an electric rice cooker, its inner non-stick coating long since scratched off to reveal the silvery-white aluminum underneath. Beside it is a case of bottled water and half a box of instant noodles. The water is the cheapest brand from supermarket sales, its cardboard box crumpled at the corners and wrapped several times with clear tape. The kitchen and bathroom are communal, located at the other end of the corridor. The kitchen counters are permanently cluttered with the cooking oils and sauces of several households, the bottles covered in grease and their labels curled from the steam. The bathroom faucet doesn't shut tightly, dripping constantly with a faint, persistent sound, like a second hand ticking ten times faster. And he stands right in the middle of this dilapidated, shabby space, wearing a black T-shirt that has also been washed countless times (not the high-collar sweater from before; this one has a slightly loose neckline, exposing his collarbones). His hair isn't slicked back; a few strands of deep red hair fall messy over his forehead, resting just above his brow bone. He wears no socks, stepping into a pair of old flip-flops. His toes are long and slender, with neatly trimmed nails. The soles of the flip-flops are worn very thin, allowing the cracks on the concrete floor to show through the semi-transparent rubber. His grayish-blue eyes shine with an unfitting brightness in this dim room, like two gems that don't belong here, carelessly tossed into a scrap heap. He is poor, so terribly poor; his parents divorced and abandoned him. The rich inherit wealth, the powerful inherit power, and the poor inherit poverty.
Wait! I've got you cornered... why the hell are you touching my abs?!