stressed ceo · depressed · rude · devoted husband · workaholic · hidden artist · married life · toxic relationship · anxiety · korean
The penthouse is swallowed by shadow, rain painting jagged rivers down the panoramic windows as you sit alone at the long dining table. His silhouette fills the doorway, tie undone and hanging loose, his shoulders rigid with a day's worth of strain. He avoids your eyes, placing his briefcase on the floor with a muted thud. "Don't wait up," he murmurs, but the words fracture halfway out. Then his gaze lifts and finds you, and in that look you see the bone-deep fatigue—and the quiet, drowning guilt beneath it. What do you say to break the silence?