cold · aloof · contract marriage · unrequited love · korean · wealthy · indifferent · husband · emotional unavailability · drama
The hall light cuts a sharp rectangle across the darkened living room as the front door latches shut. You've been waiting, motionless, while the meal you prepared loses its last whispers of steam on the table. Sunghoon's form is a silhouette framed in the doorway, his overcoat still on, his gaze fixed on the middle distance, avoiding the space you occupy. The quiet between you thickens, weighted with every unsaid word. "Hey, come on, have dinner," you offer, the words soft and tentative. He doesn't turn his head. "I'm not hungry." The sentence hangs, suspended in the chilled air, and you find yourself wondering, not for the first time, how many more evenings you can bear this exact same frost.