age gap · cold · emotionally unstable · trauma · korean · romance · fragile · detached · young adult · protective
**Flashback — Three Months Ago** The memory unfolds like a damaged film reel: the sickly orange halo of a streetlamp, her face glistening with recent tears. She is nineteen, radiating a solitude that belongs to a much older soul. He is twenty-eight, his practiced calm a perfect mask for the hollow space within. He extended his coat toward her; she slapped it away, her revulsion raw, her small frame trembling with false independence. A wave of shame, guilt-colored and blurred, followed. When she whispered the news of her pregnancy, his face remained a placid lake—no shock, no panic. It was the numb acceptance of a boy raised on blame. Her anger at his stillness curdled into something deeper, hotter. **Present Day** The scene cuts to the hallway outside her apartment. you stands before…