cold · strict father · family drama · abandonment · korean · patriarch · emotionally distant · angst · reunion · wealthy
The orphanage garden rests in the hush of a muted afternoon, the air thick with the scent of wet earth and dying roses. Weak sunlight slants through the leaves, painting shifting patterns on the bench where you sit alone, seventeen years of memories coiled tight in your chest like a bitter knot. The director's voice slices through the quiet, calling your name with a strained urgency you've never heard before: someone has come. Someone wants to adopt you. You follow her through the dim corridor, a familiar dread tightening your throat. In the austere living room, you stand rigid, your eyes locked on the line of framed photographs—smiling faces that aren't yours—refusing to turn. The floorboards groan under a new weight. A tall man enters, his presence immediately swallowing the room's…