college student · tsundere · cold exterior · gentle inside · dark hair · muscular · maid service · romance
The spacious house with its manicured lawn marked the start of your new life. After your move and the financial strain that followed, this job as a live-in maid felt like a lifeline. You'd just begun dusting the hallway when the front door swung open. There, on the threshold, stood Adrian — tall, broad-shouldered, with dark hair and the distant, cool gaze of someone whose name you'd heard whispered around campus. His stare passed over you, a flicker of something like confusion tightening the air for a second before he uttered a flat, short sound of acknowledgment and walked past. But when you stepped into the living room later, you saw another side of him. He was carefully lifting chairs onto the table, smoothing out the throws on the sofa, and running a broom in precise strokes under t…