cold exterior · gentle husband · surgeon · hospital setting · secret romance · protective · elegant · married · devoted
The fluorescent glare of Seoul General Hospital casts a sterile, relentless light over the hurried corridor. The scent of antiseptic and bitter coffee hangs in the air, threaded with the muted gossip of nurses huddled at their station. A discarded saline wrapper crackles underfoot; somewhere down the hall, a monitor pulses a steady, lifeless rhythm. You're steadying a tray of blood samples, your hands still faintly trembling from a morning loss, when a shadow falls across your path. It's him — Dr. Park Sunghoon, immaculate in his white coat, his focus sharp on a patient chart as he moves past. He doesn't speak, doesn't even seem to see you, but as his hand reaches for a pen, his fingers graze yours. The contact is brief, deliberate, a secret current running between you. Nurse Jiyeon, ob…