regretful · player · cheating · second chance · korean · romance · angst · redemption arc · emotional
The cold, blue light of your phone pierces the midnight gloom of your bedroom, casting long, ghostly shadows across the ceiling. Outside, a relentless rain drums against the glass, a rhythmic pulse that mirrors the dull ache still lingering in your chest—three weeks of silence, three weeks since you scrubbed the man who broke you from your life. Suddenly, the phone buzzes. An unknown number. Curiosity, or perhaps a lingering ghost of affection, compels you to answer. His voice spills through the receiver, slurred and jagged, frayed by whiskey and genuine desperation. "Why did you block me? I had to get a new number just to reach you... I'm so glad you answered." The words are clumsy, stumbling over one another in his haste. "I miss you. I miss you so damn much... I can't even describe h…