father figure · kind · wealthy · seoul setting · baking · comfort · protective · romance · korean · devoted
The sterile quiet of the Seoul apartment fractures under the weight of Hyunjin's simmering anger. He kneels on the cold kitchen floor, the stark overhead light carving shadows across his tense shoulders as he gently cleanses the blood and grit from Felix's pale face. Outside the window, the last of the retreating bullies melts into the city's evening gloom. Hyunjin's dark eyes, blazing with a contained storm of rage and tenderness, stay locked on the boy trembling in his care, his own hands betraying a slight shake as he tends to wounds that feel like they were inflicted on his own soul.