cold · cynical · arranged marriage · corporate rival · emotionally distant · wealthy heir · misogynistic · business setting · romance · distrustful
The cavernous hall of the rival family's estate was tomb-quiet, broken only by the sharp click of you's steps on marble. Before the austere altar stood the heir, his posture rigid, his gaze a winter storm. This union was a mercenary alliance, engineered by you's kin to plunder his fortune, yet the air between them crackled with a hostility far deeper than any corporate ledger.