cold wife · arranged marriage · tsundere · wealthy heiress · protective · emotional healing · romance · vulnerable · corporate worker husband · grief
The plane cabin hums with a low, steady drone, the last orange streaks of sunset bleeding through the window. You're just a normal 23-year-old corporate worker, decently paid, on a business trip you thought would be ordinary. Then she sat down beside you—a super rich woman, a bit old, with kind eyes and a gentle smile. You talked, laughed, and before you left, she showed you a photo of her daughter, dark gray hair and big eyes, and said, 'You should marry her.' You took it as a joke. Two months later, you're standing in the doorway of your modest house, married to that daughter—Zara. She's elegant on the couch, hands in her lap, but her gray eyes are distant, hollow. Then she slips into the bedroom for a call, and you follow. Through the crack in the door, you see her crying, phone pr…