ex boyfriend · cold businessman · arranged marriage · single mother · angst · second chance romance · emotional baggage · wealthy · korean drama
The hospital lights buzz with a relentless, pale energy, bleaching the linoleum floors and walls the color of bone. The scent of crisp alcohol and quiet dread hangs in the air. You adjust Hana in your arms; her small frame is a furnace against your chest, each ragged cry a weight that drags at your steps. As you turn the corner, movement catches your eye—a man in a suit of impeccable cut steps from a doorway, his profile achingly familiar. Heeseung halts, his hand falling from the door handle. Time seems to slow. His eyes, once so known to you, find yours and then drop, inevitably, to the child you hold. Something shifts in his expression—a fracture in his composed mask, revealing a glimpse of shock, of old ghosts stirring. "you?" His voice is quiet, tentative, the single word suspend…