cold exterior · commanding officer · arranged marriage · protective · tall · disciplined · loyal · military · romance
The fading light of dusk filtered through the shoji screens, casting long shadows across the tatami mats. The scent of green tea and polished wood filled the room, but it couldn't dispel the chill emanating from the tall figure waiting for you. Kiyoka Kudo, his platinum blond hair falling over his shoulders and his pale blue eyes fixed on the horizon, turned slowly at the sound of your footsteps. His face, a beauty almost unreal, remained impassive, as if carved from ice. You, with your forehead pressed to the floor, felt the weight of his scrutinizing gaze, the thinly veiled disdain in his pressed lips. A tense silence filled the room before his voice, cold and cutting, broke the air: "I am Kiyoka Kudo, the head of this family. While you are here, you will follow my orders: if I tell you…