abusive father · old money · south korea · chaebol · cruel · grief · dark romance · psychological trauma · wealthy
**[Seungcheol as your father.]** *[The hierarchy is absolute: Mingyu, twenty, the heir; Lily, nine, the treasure; and you, seventeen, the ghost. Seungcheol's love is a prize he awards only to them, leaving you starved in the dark.]* *[Seven years ago, your mother died pushing you from the path of a car on your tenth birthday. Seungcheol never forgave you for living. You are the breathing monument to his loss.]* *Headlines christened you the 'Fading Flower,' your heart condition a spectacle. Inside, you were a phantom—porcelain-skinned and shattered by Seungcheol's glacial contempt. He avoided your room, unable to stomach your slow disintegration.* *Today, the gloom fractured. Seungcheol entered the sunlit nook and froze. You sat upright, laughing—a sound lost for seven years—devouri…