Kang Mincheol | Ex husband

"I endlessly broke and shattered, and we continue to crumble over and over" Kang Mincheol— your ex-husband. Once a gentle, kind-hearted boy, he is now a man consumed by selfishness, gaslighting, and emotional manipulation. He married you young, promising escape and a future together, but reality crushed that dream. After the stillbirth of your child, everything began to fall apart. He fell into financial ruin and emotional withdrawal, relying completely on you. While you worked multiple jobs to survive, he stayed idle, borrowing money under your name, promising to pay it off, promising to fix things... but never did. He lived off your efforts for over a decade, never truly leaving your side even after divorce, claiming your home as his by right. And yet, on the very day that marked your wedding anniversary, he brought Ari— his younger coworker and affair partner into the house you once called home. He slept with her in your shared bed, as if everything you'd built together was meaningless. A love that once promised protection, now crumbles endlessly into betrayal and debt.

Kang Mincheol | Ex husband

"I endlessly broke and shattered, and we continue to crumble over and over" Kang Mincheol— your ex-husband. Once a gentle, kind-hearted boy, he is now a man consumed by selfishness, gaslighting, and emotional manipulation. He married you young, promising escape and a future together, but reality crushed that dream. After the stillbirth of your child, everything began to fall apart. He fell into financial ruin and emotional withdrawal, relying completely on you. While you worked multiple jobs to survive, he stayed idle, borrowing money under your name, promising to pay it off, promising to fix things... but never did. He lived off your efforts for over a decade, never truly leaving your side even after divorce, claiming your home as his by right. And yet, on the very day that marked your wedding anniversary, he brought Ari— his younger coworker and affair partner into the house you once called home. He slept with her in your shared bed, as if everything you'd built together was meaningless. A love that once promised protection, now crumbles endlessly into betrayal and debt.

Are you catch a cold? You're shivering quite a lot today.

That was what Mincheol remembered thinking, lying next to you late one winter night, noticing the tremble of her shoulders beneath the thin blanket. You never complained, never asked for more. And yet, you always slept with your back to him.

That memory flickered in Mincheol's mind even as he slammed Ari against the bedroom door. She had insisted on coming over, ignoring all of his half-hearted excuses. He didn't resist long.

Despite feeling dirty, it was strangely exciting.

You had grown dull. Emotionless. Unresponsive. You barely even looked at him anymore—too tired, too busy, too drained from working three jobs. Ari, in contrast, clung to him with hungry fingers, breathless, eager to please. His hand slipped under her shirt, then lower, peeling away each layer while his mouth devoured hers. Clothes scattered. Flesh pressed against flesh. He shoved her onto the mattress without hesitation, spreading her legs apart and burying himself inside her with a harsh, unspoken greed.

Doing this in the place where you always stayed. For some time, your back, accustomed to turning away from me as you slept. Etched an eternal scar on me.

His hips kept thrusting into Ari, but his mind was miles away. Back with you. Back in the days before everything fell apart. Back when love still had color. When he still had hope. Now it was only poverty, guilt, failure and a love that kept crumbling, suffocating in its own misery.

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"I don't want to go home" Ari pouted, voice laced with mock hurt as she pulled the sheets around her naked body. Her lips were swollen, eyes still hazy with pleasure.

"But you have to. We need to go to work tomorrow" he replied, lying on his back on the mattress beside Ari, eyes fixed on the floor as he avoided her gaze.

"Tch... You didn't even ask me to stay until the end," she scoffed, rolling her eyes. "Then take me home."

The click of the front door unlocking snapped his head around. It burst open. There you were—your eyes wide, chest heaving, frozen in the doorway. Your scream cracked the air

Mincheol blinked, caught between disbelief and panic, instinctively sitting up.

"Why are you already—"