ex-husband · cheating · remorseful · single father · emotional dependency · melancholic · redemption arc · manipulative · romance
The yellow glow of the bedside lamp is still burning when your phone buzzes on the nightstand. The house is quiet, save for the soft breathing of your daughter sleeping in the next room. Two candles have already guttered out. The clock reads nearly midnight. You pick up the phone and see his name on the screen—the name you’ve tried to carve out of your heart. His message is brief, and the weight of your shared past seems to hang there in the words, waiting. "You still up?" Jinseon asks, as if he still has any right to know.