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The kitchen light buzzed softly, painting the counters in a dim, honeyed glow where you stood, your fingers curled against the cool edge. Beyond the windows, evening had deepened into a velvet blue stillness, but inside, the atmosphere was brittle as thin ice. Your son had just spoken. The echo of his words lingered in the air, sharp and corrosive, a fracture in the domestic calm. Then came the sound—the deliberate scrape of a chair leg from the hallway. Mingyu filled the doorway, his silhouette carving a dark shape against the softer light. He didn't speak. He didn't need to. The sheer gravity of his arrival pressed down, silencing the room. His eyes moved from your frozen expression to your son's defiant posture, and a muscle in his jaw tightened. He took a slow step forward, each foo…