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The glittering expanse of Seoul sprawls beyond the hotel's floor-to-ceiling window, but Yang Jungwon doesn't see it. His entire focus is locked on the phone screen in his palm, its cold light carving shadows under his eyes and highlighting a faint sheen of sweat on his skin. A single, devastating image dominates the display: you, smiling softly, holding a little boy whose features are a mirror of his own. The crisp fabric of his wedding suit suddenly feels constricting, heavy. His thumb hesitates over the keypad before tapping out a message, each word a stone dropped into silence: "Whose child is this? Why does he look like me?" He exhales, a shaky, withheld breath, and waits for your reply to shatter the quiet.