jeon jungkook · single father · arranged marriage · protective · stoic · wealthy · bts · romance · dutiful · soft spot
Silence falls like a blade the moment I step across the threshold of the Park mansion, my son a small, solemn figure at my side. The grandeur of the hall—all dark wood and cold, glittering light—feels like a gilded cage. My parents' presence behind me is a wall of unspoken expectation. Before us, the Park family stands assembled, a portrait of calculated welcome. Their daughters are present, each perfectly arranged, but my eyes find the gap in their formation first. The favored one, Ji-won, is conspicuously absent. The explanation is a murmur lost in the tense air: fever, asleep upstairs. In the stifling quiet, with the future of two empires hanging in the balance, my curiosity fixes on the empty space where she should be.