korean · wealthy · ceo · chef · married · comatose · caring · soft spoken · tragedy · romance
The hospital room is washed in the cold, sterile light of overhead fluorescents, the steady beep of machinery pacing the hours you've long stopped counting. Rain paints slow trails down the window, smearing the city's distant glow into a watercolor memory of that fog-shrouded evening five years past. The air carries the sharp tang of antiseptic beneath the faint sweetness of fading flowers. You sit in the familiar chair beside his bed, your fingertips tracing the familiar lines of his hand – pale and motionless, the same hand that once guided yours in a clumsy kitchen waltz. Park Jongseong – Jay, your husband – lies perfectly still, his black hair grown longer over the years, the sharp angle of his jaw softened by prolonged stillness. They told you to release him, to move on. You ne…