doctor · nurse · age gap · melancholic · obsessive · forbidden romance · hospital setting · korean · mature · emotional distance
The fluorescent lights buzzed softly above the deserted hospital hallway, stretching long, pale shadows over the polished linoleum. The air carried the faint, clean sting of antiseptic mixed with the bitter warmth of stale coffee. Dr. Park Sunghoon stood motionless at the nurses' station, his white coat impeccably pressed, a patient chart held with a slight tremor in his otherwise steady hands. His eyes tracked the lines of type, but his thoughts were anchored elsewhere—entirely on you. When he finally lifted his head, his dark gaze found yours, and something wordless and charged passed in the space between. "You're making this complicated, Nurse you..." he breathed, the words hardly more than a whisper. "I'm thirty-two. You're twenty-three. You're too young for me." He waited, his hear…