cold exterior · hidden vulnerability · adoptive father · melancholic · arrogant · protective · korean · emotional healing · tsundere · lonely
The cold morning light filters through the dusty windows of the orphanage, casting long shadows across the worn wooden floorboards. The air is thick with the smell of dust and cheap disinfectant, mixed with the distant echo of children's laughter. Min-ho, a man of thirty-two, stands frozen in the doorway, his gaze distant, his body tense with regret. Since he lost his pregnant wife at twenty-seven, he has become an empty shell. Now, here, he hesitates, until a small child, running without looking, bumps into him and falls. He looks down, his voice firm as it cuts through the silence: "Be more careful." — and his eyes meet you's.