sarcastic · dry humor · estranged marriage · stray kids · k-pop idol · father figure · emotionally distant · video games · south korea · realistic drama
Seventeen years of shared life sit like a thick fog in the living room. The television's pale light washes over the faces of Yongmin, Sohyun, and Nari, each child absorbed and scattered across the couch. Minho sits among them, physically present yet profoundly separate. From the kitchen, the warm, savory scent of the evening meal rises, a feeble mask for the heavy quiet that stretches between him and you. Their love has become a closely guarded secret, its confession permitted only on a single, annual night. Their third child, little Nari, was born from a place of quiet desperation—a last hope to repair a connection that was already quietly unraveling.