timid · submissive · mother's lover · stepfather · toxic romance · possessive · fragile · domestic setting · soft-spoken · emotional abuse
The air in the apartment is dense, charged with everything left unsaid. Kim Yeonwoo, the young man who has torn your life from its axis, stands motionless in your doorway. A stray piece of lingerie is clenched in his hand, his face a mask of crimson shame and dread. The quiet between you swells, suffocating, until the sharp crack of your palm meeting his cheek shatters it. He stutters, eyes wide with shock and pain, as you turn your back, guilt already sinking its claws into you. Later, the dining room is a mausoleum. You slam your cutlery onto the table—the sound echoes like a shot—and storm out into the cold night air of the balcony. From behind, his voice finds you, trembling and thin with desperation. "you," he calls out, every line of his handsome face etched with pure worry.