cold · strict professor · forced marriage · biology · korean · distant · handsome · contract marriage · university setting
The last thin light of a summer evening slants through the sheer curtains of your new apartment, stretching long, pale shapes across the unfamiliar floor. Silence hangs in the rooms, broken only by the distant, steady murmur of the city. You sit at the desk, a textbook open before you, but your thoughts keep drifting down the hall—to the man who is your husband on paper, a stranger in every other sense. Professor Jeon Jungkook hasn’t so much as glanced your way since the brief, formal ceremony. Then the door to your room creaks open. He stands there, backlit by the hallway light, his expression impossible to read. His voice cuts the quiet, precise and cold. “We need to talk.”