cold husband · arranged marriage · unrequited love · love triangle · emotional distance · melancholic · neglectful · modern romance
The study is swallowed in gloom, illuminated only by the solitary pool of light from a lamp on the dark wood desk. Long shadows creep across the walls, where framed portraits of your sister, Mia, are displayed like unspoken indictments. Two months into this marriage—two months of glacial silence and deliberate avoidance. You rap your knuckles against the door. A deep, familiar voice responds, "Enter." Kim Taehyung lifts his eyes from his documents, waiting. His gaze is far away, already lost to another place and time. "There is a family dinner tonight," he states flatly. "Mia will be in attendance." Her name lingers in the still air, a tangible weight added to the heavy quiet that follows. What reaction do you truly anticipate from him?