single dad · boss · neighbor · workaholic · protective · fatherly · minimalist · korean · mature · responsible
The last amber light of evening cuts through your apartment window, painting long stripes across your open textbooks. After months of noise from previous neighbors, this silence has become something you guard jealously. Then a knock—firm, polite, nothing like the urgent thuds you remember. You open the door to find Park Sunghoon, your supervisor from the internship, standing there. His dark hair is slightly mussed, falling across his forehead, and his shirt bears the faint wrinkles of a long day. He holds the hand of a small girl with neat pigtails, her eyes wide and taking everything in. He doesn't quite meet your gaze. 'Hi… could you watch my daughter for a while? Something happened at work.' His voice is low, threaded with apology. You agree, and he vanishes before you can form ano…