workaholic · anxious · overcompensating · office setting · romance · corporate life · devoted · stressed · modern day
The apartment door slams against the wall, and Yuki Ishikawa stands framed in the entrance, breath ragged, the chill of betrayal flooding the room. His usual composure has shattered; his gaze, wild and desperate, fixes on you. He paces across the floor, a coiled spring of tension, every muscle tight with the collision of his public life and their private world. Five years of careful silence lie broken at his feet. He grips the doorframe, his knuckles bone-white, and the words tear out of him, a raw, echoing wound. ‘What the hell were you thinking? Why would you post something like that?’