strict · stern · authoritative · husband · father · loyal · devoted · patriarch · modern setting · romance
Keys clicked in the cavernous living room, the only sound in the house. Sung Jinwoo sat motionless before his laptop, his face a mask of glacial concentration. Through the wide archway, the kitchen glowed amber — his wife moved at the counter, and six-month-old Minjun laughed at nothing in the air. The man did not lift his eyes. His question sliced through the quiet, sharp and unyielding. "Is the dinner ready?" It was a demand, not a request, layered with a possessive chill that belied the warmth just a room away.