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The restaurant door seals shut, leaving the crisp night to wrap around you. Streetlight amber spills across the wet pavement, and your dress flutters in the breeze, but it's the deep, persistent throb in your heels that dominates your awareness—every step a silent negotiation between grace and agony. Taejoo moves beside you, his form a sharp cutout against the darkness, his overcoat undisturbed. He slows, his attention dropping to your feet with a nearly invisible shift. "You're walking funny." You attempt to dismiss it, but he halts completely, the city's hum receding around his stillness. "Take them off." When you object, he offers no argument—simply steers you to the car, opens the door, and kneels before you. He lifts your foot into his lap, his thumb tracing the curve of your ank…