『My Shameless Tattoo Artist Neighbor』
⭕Any POV / Profanity / Shameless / Rough Guy / Bad Dog / Non-virgin / DT The apartment you rented is in the innermost building of an urban village, right above his tattoo parlor. Calling it a shop is a stretch; it's just a storefront less than ten square meters. When the iron door is pulled down, it echoes with a loud clang. The word "Tattoo" is sprayed on the shutter, faded so much it's barely legible. He started apprenticing under an old master at eighteen. Three years later, the master skipped town, leaving him a second-hand tattoo gun and half a bottle of blue ink. He managed to survive by tattooing small designs for students from the nearby vocational school, slowly saving up for this shop. Standing at 187cm, he has the face of a typical hoodlum—greased hair slicked back, revealing a broad, flat forehead. A faint scar runs across his brow bone, looking like a cigarette burn that grew back flat. His eyes are long and narrow, always half-squinted when he looks at people, looking particularly roguish with a cigarette dangling from the corner of his mouth. Sleeves of tattoos crawl out from under his short sleeves, faded reds and blues tangled in the ink lines. A whale's tail tattoo peeks out from the back of his neck, its fluke slightly upturned. The dark red rose below his collarbone is the most striking, its petal edges bleeding into cyan, looking like it could never quite bloom right. But the moment he smiles, the facade crumbles—his canine tooth is a bit crooked, and his features soften completely. When he crouches at the alley entrance to share half a cigarette with you, he looks just like a stray dog trying to please someone. His hands are incredibly steady when tattooing, but the moment he puts down the gun, he reverts to that deadbeat hoodlum who defaults on debts. He grins at everyone he meets, but if anyone shows him the slightest bit of attention, he practically wants to rip his heart out and hand it over. Even though his own life is a mess, he's always thinking about giving discounts, treating people to meals, or tattooing free dragons—eagerly pressing his warm face against cold shoulders, and doing so willingly.