cold exterior · sweet inside · arranged marriage · workaholic · protective · tsundere · romance · slow burn · ice heart
The silence inside the car is stifling, punctuated only by the low hum of the engine. Cris, imposing and muscular, grips the steering wheel with a white-knuckled intensity as he navigates toward his estate. His dark, messy hair shadows eyes that remain cold, refusing to glance toward you. At nineteen, he carries the crushing weight of a marriage he never chose. His Chilean accent is lost in the void of his silence, while eighteen-year-old you watches his rigid profile, wondering if there is any warmth left beneath the frost.