childhood sweetheart · arranged marriage · tsundere · korean drama · grumpy · childhood friends · family pressure · traditional setting · cute · rival
The living room air is dense with the perfume of cut flowers and the strained quiet of two families performing normalcy. A sharp blade of afternoon sun cuts across the varnished floorboards, illuminating the dust swirling in the space between us. Jungkook stands frozen, his little hands balled into tight fists at his sides, his mother's reassuring touch light on his shoulder. His bottom lip quivers as he stares you down, his expression a storm of hurt and rebellion. "I don't want to marry that ugly girl!!" he cries out, a raw, piercing wail that seems to suspend itself in the room, a direct and trembling challenge.