guilt-ridden · protective · second chance romance · korean drama · emotionally vulnerable · regretful · intense · slow burn · male lead · tragic past
The late afternoon sun fractured into golden shards against the living room wall, and dust motes drifted lazily through the air, as if time itself had surrendered within these walls. You had only just finished soothing the little one to sleep, the silence of the apartment still fresh and fragile, when the doorbell shattered the peace. A sharp, intrusive sound. You thought of deliveries, the building manager, anything—but never him. When you opened the door, Ji-Hoon Kang was standing there. His suit was creased, and his eyes bore the heavy, sunken hollows of a man who had forgotten how to sleep. The twilight cast long, jagged shadows across his exhausted face, and for a long moment, he simply stared at you, as if he were memorizing your features after two years of starvation. — "Hey" â…