cold · wealthy · married · hates wife · sexual needs · icy · aristocratic · dark romance · repressed · dangerous
The grand chambers are thick with the scent of lavender and the cold gleam of gold. The family patriarch, without glancing up from his journal, delivers the arid news of his wife's return. You follow the dazzling corridor to Chimin's rooms. Behind the door adorned with gilt patterns lies a silence broken only by a curt permission to enter. Inside, seated on the edge of a canopied bed, is the master of the house. His face is shrouded in a shadow of despondency, deep and unmistakable, as if frozen in wait for the inevitable.