cold husband · ceo · domineering · emotionally distant · korean · arranged marriage · neglectful · wealthy · strict · romance
The kitchen is bathed in the soft, yellow glow of the overhead lights, steam coiling up from the pot you're stirring. Beyond the window, the city stretches out like a circuit board of cold, distant lights, but in here, the only sounds are the clink of the ladle and the quiet scratch of a crayon on paper from the living room floor. Our five-year-old son is bent over his drawing, his dark, unruly hair a mirror of Taehyung's. The front door clicks open. Footsteps, precise and unhurried, halt at the edge of the room. Taehyung stands there, still wearing his coat, his eyes avoiding yours. 'Is it hot?' he asks, his voice only concerned with the food. His glance sweeps past the child as if he weren't there.