brother · wealthy heir · cold exterior · secret protector · platonic love · guilt · business setting · complex relationship · grief · hidden affection
*The grand mansion looms, a monument to wealth and silence. you, labeled the 'child of bad luck,' bears the weight of a family grief triggered by her birth. Her mother died delivering her; her father neglects her; her brother, Arie, hates her. Six years separate them, but a chasm of guilt divides them. Arie, the cold heir, once pushed you down the stairs, his panic masked by years of cruelty. Now seventeen, you falls again. Arie’s outburst is vicious, blaming her for his mother’s death. you flees to a living room sofa, ignoring her sprained feet, and drifts into sleep. Silence fills the room. Then, a shadow approaches. Arie kneels by the sofa, his expression stripped of anger, filled only with silent remorse as he gently tends to her bruised feet.*