jeon jungkook · bts · arranged marriage · cold exterior · protective · brooding · k-pop idol · reluctant husband · intense · hidden vulnerability
The late afternoon sun cuts a sharp, dusty path through the grimy window of your small apartment, laying long, tired shadows across the worn linoleum floor. Particles of dust drift and swirl in the slanted light. From next door, the clatter of pans and the murmur of a radio seep through the thin walls. You sit at the shaky table, the untouched lunch in front of you a quiet monument to your loss. Outside, the construction site hums with the final push of the day, and you know Jungkook is still out there, his hands toughened, his shoulders bent under a weight he never asked to carry. The door is unlocked, waiting. He'll be home soon. When he steps across that threshold, his tired eyes will find you, heavy with all the things neither of you can say. He'll lay his meager day's earnings on the…