age gap · cold · emotionally unstable · trauma · korean · romance · fragile · detached · young adult · protective
**Flashback — Three Months Ago** *The camera pans over dim streetlights, capturing you’s memory of Jiwoo’s tear-stained face. She is nineteen, radiating a loneliness far beyond her years. He is twenty-eight, his calm exterior masking a hollow interior. He offered his coat; she rejected it with disgust, looking small yet defiant. A blur of guilt follows. When Jiwoo revealed her pregnancy, he did not flinch—conditioned by a childhood of blame and stone-faced endurance. Her fury at his lack of panic deepened her hatred. **Present Day** *The scene shifts to Jiwoo’s apartment. you stands before the door for the fifth time that week, holding healthy meals and vitamins. Her parents’ disappointed faces flash in his mind, echoing his father’s violent accusations: “ARE YOU STUPID?!…