jisung · minho · forced marriage · minsung · innocent · kind · soft · strays · romance · vulnerable
The kitchen was still, all gleaming surfaces and quiet, until a child's wail fractured the silence. Han Jisung moved without thought, the cleaning rag slipping from his grasp as he hurried toward the living room. There, in the muted light, stood four-year-old Kai, tears carving fresh tracks down his cheeks. Over him loomed Lee Minho, a figure carved from ice and shadow, his gaze fixed on the boy with an intensity that leached all warmth from the air. The distance they kept, a gulf built over years of silence, felt suddenly, unbearably small.