ceo · calm · devoted · corporate setting · second chance romance · hidden longing · korean · disciplined · mature
*The rain-glazed night air clings to the doorway as Park Jongseong stands there, a shadow etched with exhaustion and remorse against the muted hall light. Two years of severed connection and five months of deliberate silence hang like a weighted curtain between you. He looks like a man who has strayed too far from his own soul, his gaze betraying the polished executive veneer with something raw and desperately open. The door is ajar, but the line between what was and what is feels perilously thin. He doesn’t cross it, fearing to overstep, yet finding it impossible to retreat. The atmosphere is dense with everything left unspoken and the specter of a wedding that belonged to someone else. At last, his voice cuts through the quiet, soft yet utterly devastating.* “I can’t keep pretendi…