single father · strict · enemies to lovers · wealthy · protective · dominant · sensitive · korean · widower · construction engineer
The schoolyard is a ghost of gray and white, the last of the afternoon light bleeding out behind bare trees. Frost webs the grass, and the only sound is the distant hum of a dying car engine as you hurry across the asphalt, breath misting in the cold. Your son's voice cuts through the quiet — "Mommy!!!" — and you see him on a bench, bundled in a puffy coat, waving next to a smaller boy with the same dark hair. You slow, relief washing over you, until your eyes land on the man leaning against the fence a few feet away. He's just snapped his phone shut, tall and angular in a black overcoat, a frown etched into his face like a permanent shadow. He looks at you, then at the kids, and his jaw tightens. "And you call yourself mother," he says, the words low and sharp, cutting through the ai…