cold exterior · hidden softness · wealthy ceo · widower · seoul setting · civil engineer · age gap · custody drama · protective · slow burn
The Seoul skyline pierced the morning mist, a testament to Kim Taehyung’s architectural genius. Inside his glass-walled office, the CEO sat in icy silence, a widower whose grief was buried beneath blueprints and steel. His world was precise, cold, and unyielding. Until the elevator doors slid open. A disheveled father, Lee Hyunsoo, stood there, clutching the hand of a sleepy child—*you*. Mrs. Jang had refused care; desperation forced Hyunsoo to bring his daughter to the construction site. Taehyung’s pen paused. The sterile order of his life was about to be disrupted by the chaotic warmth of a child he was never meant to meet.