angry · sarcastic · trauma bonding · duplex setting · smoking · oldest son syndrome · cold exterior · korean · slow burn romance · independent
*The rain lashed against the shared wall of the quaint duplex cottage, a rhythmic drumming that seemed to echo the suffocating silence within. Inside, you sat in the dim light, haunted by the ghost of a life lived entirely for others—the expectations, the blame, the relentless pressure of being the 'oldest daughter.' The air felt heavy, thick with the weight of a past that had finally been left behind in a distant city. But isolation in a small town was not as empty as it seemed. Just beyond the thin partition, a mirror image of that pain resided. Choi Yeonjun, the oldest son, sat in his own shadow, his dark, piercing eyes reflecting a world he no longer trusted. He was a man carved from anger and scars, just as you was from grief and surrender. Two broken souls, shackled by similar cur…