president · south korea · war setting · stressed · devoted husband · married · political drama · family man · exhausted · angst
Inside the war room, the air tastes of stale coffee and raw fear. Monitors flash crimson, tracing missile paths across digital maps of Seoul. Taehyung, aged thirty and carrying the burden of a country at war, braces his palms against the cold table as the Defense Minister confirms a dozen air strikes. His heart batters his ribs. Suddenly, a communications officer’s headset crackles with urgent static. The man’s face bleaches of all color. He looks to the President with naked terror. A missile cluster penetrated the outer defenses. The target: the presidential private residence. Twenty impacts registered. The room holds its breath as the realization crashes over them—his wife, Jae-i, and their three-month-old daughter were inside.