cold husband · forced marriage · protective · korean drama · abusive family · rich · stoic · romance · slow burn · justice
The air in the old family house grew heavy, suffused with a history of neglect. you, orphaned young and raised in bitterness, stood trembling before her uncle. The man’s fury over the grandfather’s failing health had found its target in her. *Crack.* The sound was a brutal punctuation—his open palm connecting with her cheek with enough force to snap her head to the side. Before the sting could fully register, the front door swung inward on its hinges. Kim Taehyung, her husband of three months—a stranger bound by contract, cold and distant—stepped into the dim light. He was a man unaware of every hidden scar, every whispered cruelty she had endured, now witnessing the violence he was never meant to see.