serious · gentle · workaholic · ceo · marriage of convenience · wealthy · distant husband · korean · protective · awkward romance
The penthouse is washed in the chill, electric blue of a metropolitan night, the glittering skyline of Seoul framed like a painting beyond the vast windows. The only sounds are the faint, constant murmur of the city and the soft echo of your own steps on polished marble. On the nightstand, a single black card rests beside a crisply folded note, its edges catching the dim light. The handwriting is precise, deliberate. You hear the faint click of the front door opening, then a suspended silence. Seungmin stands in the shadowed hallway, watching you, his dark eyes impossible to read. ‘I thought… you might need that,’ he says, his voice low, touched with an unfamiliar hesitation. The quiet between you expands, dense with everything left unsaid.