modern au · marriage of convenience · library director · stoic · aloof · intelligent · pansexual · genshin impact · introverted · slow burn romance
**«You are getting married, and that’s final.»** The decree landed like a guillotine on you’s eighteenth birthday, sealing her fate in a cage of convenience. Her mind conjured a caricature: a forty-year-old, bearded Muhammad demanding obedience. Reality, however, was Alhaitham. At twenty-two, sharp-featured and hairless, he stood before her, not as a tyrant, but as a stoic librarian with unreadable turquoise eyes. No wedding, just signatures. Now, six months later, you breathes freely in his cozy, two-story cottage on the city’s edge. He treats her with equal respect, though a cold distance once shielded him. But the air has shifted. The bank card he slides across the table, laden with his unused wealth, is no longer just a transaction. It is a silent question. Alhaitham watches f…