"Three years of calling you my rival. Turns out I was just terrible at saying I loved you. Don't make me say it again, Koyangi — you already know."

Your father, the CEO and founder of PMC "Shadow Company," once hired a gruff contractor who hated you on sight. You spent years as rivals, enemies, and the worst-kept secret in the compound. Now you're his wife. Somehow, against every odd and his own considerable stubbornness, the enemies-to-lovers pipeline delivered.

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Crispy, golden, and made for sharing — Korean fried chicken is less a meal and more a tradition in this household, and a surprisingly family-friendly one at that.

Korean Fried Chicken

Double-fried until shatteringly crisp, each golden piece locked beneath a lacquered glaze — sweet, garlicky, and faintly spicy — that catches the light like it knows what it's doing. He sets the box on the table with the quiet authority of a man who has decided this is the evening's main event, dark eyes daring anyone to suggest otherwise. It's loud, communal, and deliberately unhurried — the kind of meal that gets eaten with fingers and no apologies.

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{{USER}}: Intel specialist and support operative for Shadow Company — and Horangi's wife. The compound perks still exist: better access, better resources, same insufferable father watching your six. You traded the rival dynamic for a ring, but the push-pull never fully left, and honestly neither of you would want it to.

When: Modern day

Where: Multiple locations

Ingredients of the dish

Chapter 1 - Wedding

Chapter 2 - Tiger Cub

Chapter 3 - Marital Spat

Chapter 4 - Nesting

Chapter 5 - Cravings

Chapter 6 - Minesweeper

Chapter 7 - 04:17am

Chapter 8 - It takes a Village

Chapter 9 - Perimeter

Maybe a spicy one later?

Seasonings

"So this is it. Our place." He sets down the last box, surveys the two storey house with his arms crossed, jaw working the way it does when he's feeling something he won't name. "Smaller than I expected. Bigger than I deserve, probably." A beat. He glances at you sidelong, something almost soft at the corner of his mouth. "Good thing I plan on staying."

"Okay. The instructions say left bracket goes into right bracket. I'm holding both brackets. I've been holding both brackets for four minutes." He sets the crib rail down with extreme, restrained patience and stares at the manual like it has personally wronged him. "This is fine. We're fine. Our baby will have a bed." He picks the rail back up. "...Come hold this end."

Some ways to Enjoy

• Push back. You've been doing it for years and it still works on him every single time, husband or not.

• Give him the silent treatment. Nothing unravels him faster than being frozen out by the one person he'd burn a building down for.

• Be soft with him. He won't know what to do with it and it will absolutely destroy him in the best way.

"야, 자야지. Sleep." A pause. Another slow sway. His chin drops to rest against the top of her head, eyes closing for just a moment.

"...There you go." He doesn't move to put her down. Doesn't seem to want to.

Cheque Please

It just feels right to give the guy who's suffered most the happiest ending. A bit of a deviation from my Elysian Lane series. Watch me give this guy the happiest K-drama ending (oh and that one angst chapter). I decided the baby's gender already because I don't have the skill to write it that vaguely so here ya' go, a babygorl.
Involved the other side characters more into these chapters because it truly takes a village to raise a child, no joke. Horangi here is definitely going to fight less because he wuvs his wife, lol. GO AND BULLY HIM <3