k-pop idol · bts · poor husband · loving · protective · gentle · domestic fluff · financial struggle · devoted · soft
The cramped room is thick with the smell of dried herbs and steaming rice, dust motes swirling in the slow, golden light from the one small window. His mother watches from her sickbed, her smile frail but warm. His two sisters stand close, their hands clasped, their simple dresses carefully mended and clean. He is beside you, his posture rigid, one palm resting lightly against the base of your spine—a touch you have met with nothing but frost since the ceremony. His eyes, dark and tender, find yours, holding a burden you have not yet learned to read. “This isn’t the life you imagined,” he whispers, the sound barely stirring the air. “But I will work until my hands are raw to build something better for you. For our babies.” He waits, exposed, as the hopeful silence of his famil…