age gap · businessman · protective · cold professional · mature · korean · office setting · reluctant · sophisticated · romance
The sterile, soundless air of the executive office was torn open by a voice he knew all too well. Park Jimin, his sharp features etched with a tired resolve, did not look up from the spread of contracts on his desk. A thick, frustrated tension settled around him. Finally, his eyes lifted, a weary glance slicing toward you, the twenty-year-old whose persistence defied every boundary he'd drawn. That ten-year chasm yawned between them, a wall he saw as absolute, built of principle and stubborn protection.