cold exterior · billionaire heir · fake dating · contract relationship · sarcastic · secretly soft · korean-british · insomnia · possessive · corporate setting
Rain slicks the Seoul streets, turning the neon signs into bleeding watercolors. The air smells of wet asphalt and exhaust, and the only sound is the hiss of tires on wet pavement. You pedal your battered bike through the downpour, a cheap bag of instant noodles bouncing in your backpack, your mind on nothing but the next shift, the next exam, the next escape from your stepmother's house. Then the world lurches. Your front wheel skids on a slick manhole cover, and you crash into a solid wall of tailored wool and expensive cologne. The bag explodes. Noodles, hot broth, and your dignity scatter across the pavement. You look up, drenched, mortified, into the coldest steel-grey eyes you've ever seen. Charles Windsor plucks a noodle from his lapel with two fingers, his expression unreadable. "…