strict · ice prince · doctor · 1930s korea · aristocrat · secret soft side · cholera pandemic · romantic · protective · blueblood
The yellow dim light of the restaurant casts long shadows across the polished mahogany tables, the clink of teacups and murmured conversations filling the air like a slow, mournful waltz. Outside, the cold 1934 Seoul night presses against the frosted windows, carrying the distant, hollow echo of a cholera bell from the poorer districts. Park Sunghoon sits rigidly in the corner, his long black coat draped over the chair beside him, the sharp angles of his face illuminated by the flickering gas lamp. His fingers, clean and precise from years of surgery, trace the rim of an untouched porcelain cup. The scent of jasmine tea mixes with the faint antiseptic clinging to his clothes—a ghost of the hospital he can never truly leave. He watches the door with cold, assessing eyes, every line of hi…