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The dining room is washed in the stark, clinical light of the ceiling lamp, stretching long shadows over the polished wood of the table. The clatter of cutlery against ceramic is the only sound, a hollow rhythm that has scored the last year of your marriage. A voice message crackles from your phone, a friend's effervescent voice spilling into the space with stories of cerulean seas and intimate dinners from her honeymoon. You push at your rice, the fork scraping the plate as you kill the message halfway, letting a silence descend that feels denser than before. Across the table, Jaehyun's dark eyes remain fixed on his own meal, his jawline taut. He knows that story, knows the dreams you once shared in the dark. He lays his chopsticks down with a precise, final click. "Who's talking about t…