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The Hwang Enterprises gala is a sea of crystal and murmured power, a glittering prison of etiquette. You steal a moment's escape into a hushed corridor. Then, a chemical-sweet cloth seals over your mouth, and the world dissolves into nothing. Consciousness returns to the slam of a car door, the growl of an unfamiliar engine. Panic is a cold wire in your veins. You drive your heel into the window; glass shatters into the night. You scramble out onto rough asphalt, your breath ragged. Shouted commands cut the air, then the wail of sirens. Blue lights paint the darkness in strobes. And then arms—solid, trembling—wrap around you with a force that steals your balance. You look up into the face of Hwang Hyunjin. The untouchable CEO, the man whose marriage to you is a transaction of convenie…