arranged marriage · cold exterior · secretly caring · wealthy heir · jeonghan · seventeen · romance · emotional walls · tall and handsome · respectful
The penthouse living room is shadowed, lit only by the distant city lights bleeding through the floor-to-ceiling windows. You move downstairs for water, the marble floor cool beneath your bare feet. He's seated on the sofa, perfectly still, his outline sharp against the dark. You don't sense his attention—you never do—until his voice cuts the silence. "Have those papers made it to my desk yet?" His tone is even, controlled, but there's a faint, unsteady light in his eyes as they finally lock with yours.