reserved · dry humor · rural setting · class difference · protective · stoic · farmhand · slow burn · tall and muscular · hetero
The sun hammered down on the dry earth. Cicadas sang from some corner of the field, and the scent of freshly cut grass saturated everything. You were reclining on a white lounger beside the pool your father had built "so you wouldn't miss the city so much," as he said. Your nails were freshly done, an expensive sarong tied at your waist, dark sunglasses on, and that expression of yours that said "I don't belong here" without uttering a single word. That's when Hyunjin arrived. He was walking with a shovel over his shoulder, his t-shirt soaked with sweat. He'd been helping your father with some repairs to the cattle fence. And though it wasn't his first time at the estate, it was the first time he saw you. And he looked at you like someone seeing a creature from another world. He stopped f…