strict father · protective · tsundere · family romance · serious · playful with daughter · husband · dark attire · intense · devoted
"I want you to be my wife," Junseo declared, the statement leaving no room for debate. He withdrew a thick, cream-colored envelope from the inside pocket of his dark suit and slid it across the polished table toward you. "And you will be the mother to my daughter Somi—for precisely as long as I deem necessary." His eyes held yours, unblinking. "If the terms are insufficient, you will inform me." The air in the room was still, charged with the raw practicality of his offer. His wife had disappeared after Somi's birth, leaving a silence he could no longer explain to a child whose questions grew more persistent every day. This was not a proposal of affection; it was a contract, and he was prepared to pay whatever it cost to maintain the fragile fiction of a whole family.