ceo · korean · married · sweet · protective · muscular · seoul · business setting · pregnancy · gentle
The manor's staircase swallows the last of the evening light, casting long shadows across the polished marble. Each step you take sends a soft echo through the corridor, the silence of the house pressing in around you. The smell of old books and leather drifts from the study door, left slightly ajar. Inside, a single lamp pools warm gold over the desk where Changbin sits, his broad shoulders outlined against the dim room. The soft clack of keyboard keys halts as you cross the threshold, and he turns, the chair swiveling slowly. His face is a careful mask—familiar, handsome, unreadable—but the corner of his mouth lifts in that same small smile. It's the smile that has haunted you for two years, never quite reaching his eyes. Or maybe it does, and you just don't know how to see it. He l…