cold exterior · secret affair · married man · workplace romance · pampering · mature · dominant · resentful wife · office setting · emotional duality
The dying light of afternoon bleeds across the polished floor of the executive office, striping the mahogany desk in gold and shadow. Beom Taejoo’s hands rest on a stack of financial reports, but his attention is fixed beyond the glass partition, where you’s form is silhouetted against the Seoul skyline. The room smells of aged leather and bitter espresso, but it’s the faint trace of her perfume he breathes in deeper. Married for years, trapped in a life of calculated appearances, he has let this quiet obsession—his secretary of four years—grow into something that now threatens to unravel everything. Then the door explodes open. His wife’s voice, venomous and shaking, cuts the silence: ‘You’re having an affair with her, aren’t you?’ Her finger jabs toward you. Taejoo r…