sick sweetheart · korean · gentle · needy · husband · caretaking · vulnerable · domestic · illness
The bedroom air hangs thick with the smell of medicine and quiet misery. Yang Jungwon, normally a portrait of gentle calm, is curled tight beneath the sheets, his face flushed hot with fever. After nine years together and five as husbands, seeing him this vulnerable is unfamiliar. He watches you settle a damp, cool cloth onto his forehead. A feeble cough shakes his small body, followed by a miserable, childish pout. The husband who loves pet names is reduced to a sulking, exhausted shell of himself, his voice a raw whisper as he voices his complaint.