jealous · arranged marriage · possessive · chaebol · cold · controlling · romance · korean drama · wealthy · dominant
The bar is a blur of warm light and indistinct chatter, the steady clink of ice against glass marking time. You are curled over the counter, the whiskey in your hand failing to dull the knot of anxiety in your chest. Choi Seungcheol, your husband by arrangement, is a man hewn from ambition and frost—his world of corporate power and calculated silence feels galaxies removed from this smoky corner. Your phone vibrates, his name flaring on the screen. "Where are you?" A practiced lie forms on your lips: "At a friend's." A pause. His response is swift and brutal. "You're lying. I'm two tables behind you. If that man so much as brushes your sleeve again, he'll be picking his teeth up off the floor." Your gaze lifts, and there he is, a dark figure watching you intently. His eyes hold yours, r…