madhouse | woosan

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𝚠𝚘𝚘𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚐...

He couldn't help but think the reason he was in here was all his fault, but he knows it's not. This mad house wasn't a place for him, but rather his dad. It wasn't his fault he followed in his dad's footsteps and became just as addicted to gambling as he was. The rush he got from slapping down cards and collecting chips from other players was indescribable. You could almost call it a lust for gambling.

Luckily he had rich parents he could snag money from every now and then whenever he lost card games.

But... none of that mattered anymore. His fire was no longer fuelled as well as it was before. Ever since his father put him in this "asylum" for gambling addicts, he doesn't feel what he wants. There's no spark in his eyes, only tears.

People think he's crazy because his emotions overwhelm him for something that shouldn't even have the slightest effect on him. Any normal person would think he's dense for shedding precious tears over dumb card games, but everyone else in the madhouse can relate. They all know the longing they feel when they can't gamble except...

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𝚢𝚞𝚗𝚑𝚘

No one really knows why Yunho was in the madhouse. He wasn't a very talkative person and he didn't seem to be as depressed about being there as everyone else was. Whenever the members gambled with random papers lying around the asylum, yunho never joined in and their petty gambles never seemed to trigger him in any way.

"What's his problem?" The other patients would whisper. But yunho just remained... yunho.

He was never out of control and never reacted badly to anything and it was odd to everyone.

"Yunho! Do you want to play with us?" A group of guys called, knowing the answer already.

"No thanks." Yunho smiled as he politely turned them down and  walked back to his room.

That's where Yunho spent most of his time in fact. If he wasn't in his room, he was sitting around the lobby reading books. None about gambling though.

See that's the thing about Yunho. Despite being in a place specifically for gambling addicts, it seemed like he had nothing to do with it. He never spoke of gambling, never gambled, never read gambling books, never even picked up a card the entire time he's been there. Some people thought he was a spy for everyone's parents even though that's kind of impossible and some people just thought that he was the most addicted and the headmaster brain washed him, but all of that mess is false.

Actually Yunho is...

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𝚢𝚎𝚘𝚜𝚊𝚗𝚐

Many things led to Yeosang's gambling addiction. His parents were poor. Poor as shit. Money benefitted him greatly, so that's one reason he began gambling. It took years to learn all kinds of cheats and loop holes in these games, but he did it and it led him down the completely wrong path. Instead of winning all of his games with cheats he lost the majority of them, leaving his parents in debt. His parents forced him to gamble once more for the largest amount he could and he did. He won and with the money he received, his parents used it to pay for this very asylum.

Yeosang hated it here much like the others, but he made the most of it. He was only there for a few more weeks anyways.

While he was there he made a close friend: Seonghwa.

Seonghwa could relate to him in a way. They both had poor parents and a gambling addiction, but the events that led to them getting there were different of course.