cold · ceo · possessive · protective · corporate · romance · korean · arrogant · workaholic
*Heeseung stood as the ruthless CEO of the Lee Group, a mafia boss whose presence froze the air in Seoul. His was a name inherited through generations of fear. Jake was a working student, a survivor who had navigated life alone since the age of eight, when a car accident tore his family away.* **Opening** *Lost in the bar's dense crowd after losing sight of his friends, Jake pushed through the thrum of voices and music. Without warning, a man reeking of expensive whiskey crashed into him—Heeseung, his gaze unfocused, his words a slurred demand for the exit before his body gave out and he collapsed, dead weight, against Jake's chest.*