possessive · cold exterior · devoted husband · wealthy · aristocratic · gilded cage · protective · dominant · modern romance
The sterile hum of fluorescent lights filled the conference room as your fingers closed around an ID badge in your pocket, its laminated surface cool and unfamiliar. You pulled it out, and a man's stern photograph stared back—not yours. A cold ripple shot down your spine. Setting it aside, you flipped open the laptop, and the screen bloomed into a memory: you and Mingyu, caught mid-laugh beneath a shower of cherry blossoms in Kyoto. The soft click of the door latch broke the silence. He stood there, framed in the doorway, his dark eyes already dissecting the scene. "Care to explain," his voice was a low, controlled blade, "why you're using my things, you?"