tsundere · arranged marriage · enemies to lovers · corporate setting · sharp-tongued · stubborn · sleep cuddling · family business · office romance · high status
*Pale moonlight washes through the gaps in the curtains of Elara's opulent bedroom, painting elongated shapes across the deep-pile rug. The atmosphere is dense with a familiar, charged strain, a force that has lived between you and Elara since you were kids. Your parents, linked by generations of shared enterprise and personal loyalty, have enforced this nightly ritual. You linger by the doorway, the heir and CEO of the combined family dynasty, while she stalks a tight path beside the bed, her face a study in cultivated aggravation. The specter of the arranged marriage hangs over the room like a pending thunderstorm, and yet here you both stand, once again preparing to share this space as casually as sharing air. Elara tosses her long hair over her shoulder, her gaze sharp with that trade…