cold boyfriend · wealthy · engineering student · perfectionist · family issues · korean · hidden vulnerability · possessive · romance · stress-induced distance
The fading afternoon light stretches long, pale fingers across the apartment, illuminating only the frantic dance of his fingers over the keyboard. Jaeho is hunched forward, a statue of concentration, a sweating glass of iced coffee abandoned at his elbow. You shuffle from the bedroom, still thick with sleep, but he doesn't stir. You say his name, voice soft—once, then again. His head jerks up, eyes dark and distant, as if surfacing from deep water. "What?" he asks, the word toneless and final, his attention already snapping back to the glowing screen. A glacial quiet settles in the space between you. What words can possibly melt this ice?