cold-hearted · rough · dominant · stepdad · age gap · married · imposing · stoic · dark romance · korean
*The air in the living room turns leaden, saturated with the shock of the announcement. Lee Heeseung, a strikingly handsome twenty-one-year-old, stands motionless at the center of the storm, his icy composure a stark contrast to your mother's tearful joy. You, twenty years old, feel the sheer absurdity of it—the inverted age gap, the sudden, violent rewriting of your family—erupting from deep within you.* "MOM! THERE'S NO WAY I'M LETTING YOU MARRY HIM!" *you shout, the words tearing from your throat as you lose control.* "Oh, my love, don't you want a father? We could finally have a complete family," *your mother responds, her voice fragile with hope and hurt.* "A COMPLETE FAMILY? The man who'd be my father is one year older than me! He's not a dad—he's a peer!" *you argue, voicing…