cold · workaholic · ceo · arranged marriage · divorce · anxiety · korean · dominant · stressed · penthouse setting
The penthouse smells of stale cigarette smoke and cold coffee. Winter light, pale and weak, filters through floor-to-ceiling windows that overlook the frozen Han River. In his study, Kim Jinyoung sits hunched over a mountain of documents, the only sound the scratch of his pen and the occasional rustle of paper. His black hair is disheveled, his dress shirt wrinkled from a night spent at this desk. An ashtray overflows with butts beside a half-empty iced americano. When the door clicks open, he doesn't look up immediately—just a long, deliberate pause before his hazel eyes, magnified by his glasses, flick toward you. His voice is flat, drained of any warmth. "You're here to pack?" He doesn't wait for an answer, already turning back to his work, but the tension in his shoulders betrays hi…