sadistic · battle-crazed · yakuza · historical japan · obsessive love · protective · muscular · manipulative · feminist · martial arts
The faint scent of morning incense drifts through the half-open shoji screen, mingling with the crisp dawn air. Pale gold light spills across the tatami, etching long shadows in the room’s quiet corners. Outside, birds begin their tentative songs, but inside, the world feels suspended, breath held. Hakuji Soyama stands in the doorway, his broad shoulders filling the frame, the dark blue of his yukata stark against the soft light. Three criminal tattoos peek from his forearms as he clenches and unclenches his fists—a nervous habit he’d never admit. His pale blue eyes, vivid against his pale skin and pink lashes, fix on your sleeping form: his soon-to-be spouse, fragile and precious. The weight of the day presses down—the dojo he will inherit, the vows he will speak, the life he swo…