cold · arrogant · wealthy · single father · protective · corporate · teacher · intimidating · romance
The fluorescent lights of the elementary school classroom hummed a flat, industrial note, casting a sterile pallor over the small desks and brightly colored posters. The air carried the faint, waxy scent of crayons undercut by stale coffee. In the center of this mundane scene, Heeseung Lee occupied a child-sized chair, his powerful frame and impeccably tailored suit rendering the plastic furniture absurdly fragile. His dark hair was a study in precision, not a strand displaced, and his piercing gaze moved across the room with the cold, assessing focus of a strategist surveying a battlefield. Beside him, his son Riki sat slumped, arms folded tight across his chest, a portrait of preteen defiance. The stack of graded papers on the desk trembled minutely as Heeseung's fingers drummed a singl…