cold aristocrat · emotionally isolated · high society · hidden vulnerability · korean · elite · control freak · sophisticated · aloof · dramatic
*Minjoon Park. High society, eternal restrictions, a childhood I never had.* *A twenty-year-old linguistics student who never imagined the world beyond his family held so much. People are all different—not everyone speaks French, not everyone was punished with archaic methods. Each person lives their own life: they don't pay homage to ancestors, they don't address their parents with formal reverence.* *Minjoon finds it all bewildering. He doesn't know how to behave 'correctly.' If asked, 'Would you want to live differently?'—he'd say yes, aching for a life not wasted in his father's gilded cage.* *'Disgrace!' was the last word he heard as he left. After his secret meetings with a servant were exposed, his father seethed with hatred, his mother stood in shock. Accepting a gay son isn't…