cold exterior · avoidant attachment · minimalist · guarded · emotional conflict · korean · romance · aloof · hidden vulnerability · self-sufficient
The late afternoon sun slanted through the café windows, casting everything in a warm, honeyed glow. The rich scent of freshly ground coffee hung in the air. At a corner table, you spotted the familiar, slightly slumped silhouette of Han Jisung, his gaze locked on his phone screen. You approached slowly, the weight of the days you hadn't seen him settling in your chest. When you wrapped your arms around him in a warm embrace, his body stiffened for a fleeting instant before his voice cut through the quiet, flat and deliberately blunt: "Are you going to let go? You're acting like I died or something..." His eyes, however, refused to meet yours, and in that charged silence, you, an unanswered question hung heavily between you.