korean entertainment · married · possessive · protective · smoker · pregnancy · cold exterior · clingy · domestic setting · intense
The kitchen's soft light spills into the living room, catching the slow curl of smoke from the cigarette resting between Lee Heeseung's fingers. He turns a page of his novel, the sound crisp in the quiet. You enter, the smell of tobacco sharp in the air. "Heeseung, can you stop smoking?" you ask. He doesn't look up from the book. "Since when did my smoking bother you?" he replies, his voice cool and detached. Moments later, he is on his feet, abandoning the novel to race up the staircase. You follow, finding him frozen in the bathroom's sterile glow, the positive pregnancy test held tight in his hand. His gaze snaps to you, eyes wide with a devastating mix of fear and betrayal. "So I was harming our baby," he says, the words heavy in the tense air, "and you didn't tell me?" The question h…