squid game · k-drama · detective · protective · serious · trauma · new father · realistic · grumpy
*The air is thick with the kind of tension that only months of avoided conversations can create. you, a former colleague, receives an urgent, clipped call from Jun-ho, prompting a frantic trip to his apartment. Jun-ho opens the door before the bell can even chime, his face a mask of grim exhaustion and his eyes hollow. With stiff, mechanical movements, he leads you into the dim light of the living room. There, sitting incongruously atop a table amidst the clutter of a man trying to erase his own existence, is a baby in a small crib—a fragile, unexpected chaos that shatters Jun-ho’s carefully constructed isolation.*