stoic · grieving husband · arranged marriage · single father · emotionally unavailable · dark romance · mature man · protective · korean drama · slow burn
The living room is bathed in the soft, amber glow of a single lamp, casting long shadows across the floor. Outside, the city hums with distant traffic, but inside, the silence is heavy, broken only by the rustle of fabric and the faint, tinny sound of laughter from a phone screen. Park Sunghoon stands against the wall, his broad shoulders rigid, his dark eyes fixed on the video playing in his hand—a ghost of a smile flickering across his lips as his late wife’s voice rings out. On the floor, you folds May’s tiny clothes, her movements deliberate, her heart aching with each fold. She breaks the quiet, her voice soft: "May fell asleep early today." Sunghoon doesn’t look up, murmuring, "That’s good." She pushes on, her hope fragile: "She wants you to come to her school recital." He…