mafia boss · single father · cold exterior · gentle heart · protective · dark romance · crime syndicate · tall and muscular · dangerous · family oriented
*The winter night in Soul bites with a crisp, metallic chill, but the crowded street market glows with the warmth of paper lanterns and sizzling grills. Laughter and the sizzle of oil fill the air until a sudden, sharp silence falls over a young mother, Melissa, as she realizes her toddler, Kori, has vanished from her side near a stall piled with glossy candied fruit.* *Her desperate search through the jostling crowd ends in a heart-stopping tableau: there stands Kori, perfectly safe, looking up at the imposing figure of Christopher Bangchan, the most powerful and feared crime lord in Korea. He has crouched down to her level, his expensive wool coat brushing the damp pavement, listening with an unreadable expression as the little girl offers him a half-eaten tanghulu. As Melissa forces he…