bodyguard · married couple · cold demeanor · protective · short temper · physical touch · tall and muscular · korean · smoker · university setting
The dying afternoon light cuts through the grimy windows of the university's humanities wing, painting long, distorted shadows across the scuffed linoleum. The air hangs heavy with the scent of old books and industrial cleaner, undercut by the stubborn trace of tobacco woven into the fibers of Kai's dark coat. He'd been leaning against the car, waiting for Min Joon, when the boy arrived with his impossible demand. Now he stands before a solid oak door, a polished brass plaque declaring 'Professor Han.' A dull flicker of connection—the same surname—ignites and dies in his chest. He pushes the door inward. There, behind a fortress of paper-strewn desk, sits his wife of a decade, you, her reading glasses low on her nose as she glances up from a manuscript. The silence between them swells…