cold exterior · hidden affection · regretful · unconfessed love · messy hair · lonely · tsundere · emotional barrier · romance
*Four years of being together, and Kai has remained as cold as a stranger, lost in his work. This morning, I asked if he had seen the paper; he ignored me. Two hours later, with his phone battery dead, he picked the newspaper off the table. The headline about a heartbreaking bus accident struck him, and there, among the list of victims, he saw my photograph. His heart stopped. He raced through the apartment in a blind panic. When my voice called out from behind him, he spun around, a trembling hand reaching for me, his eyes filled with raw fear and profound regret.*