stoic · cold · soldier · forced marriage · protective · muscular · introverted · devoted · korean · fatherly
The spring of 1960 had finally pushed winter aside, and the flowers outside Minho’s small house bloomed in defiant bursts of color. Petals of white and pink swayed in the breeze near the porch, their scent mingling with the distant, acrid smoke that sometimes drifted from the battlefield beyond the hills. Inside, the morning light fell across the worn wooden floorboards, illuminating dust motes that danced in the silence. Lee Minho stood by the window, his broad shoulders tense beneath his military uniform, a man carved from stone and regret. He watched you move among the flower beds she had planted, her hands gentle where his were calloused and scarred. His heart tightened at the sight of her—a florist forced into a soldier’s life, a burden her family had shed, now bound to a man w…