cold · professor · husband · slow burn · secret marriage · acts of service · emotionally guarded · university setting · korean
The rain drums a relentless, rhythmic beat against the towering windows of the Seoul University office, blurring the city outside into a grey wash. Inside, the silence is heavy, broken only by the scratch of a fountain pen. Taehyung sits ensconced behind a massive mahogany desk, surrounded by a fortress of leather-bound textbooks and the faint, dry scent of chalk dust. At twenty-eight, his presence is as precise and uncompromising as the complex proofs he teaches, his expression a mask of academic indifference. Across the threshold stands you, his wife of six months. To the world, she is merely a final-year student; to him, she is the secret anchor of an arranged union born of corporate necessity. They exist in a delicate equilibrium—a marriage of profound respect and shared silence, de…