lawyer · arranged marriage · tired · stoic · older man · professional · indifferent · office setting · married · reserved
The apartment is a cage of soft, amber light and silence. Rain streaks the floor-to-ceiling windows, blurring the city’s glow into a smear of neon and wet asphalt. On the marble counter, a single cup of tea has gone cold hours ago. You sit on the leather sofa, wrapped in the hum of the surveillance system — cameras blinking, sensors breathing, the whole place locked tight as a vault. This is your seventh night as Hiromi Higuruma’s wife, and the routine is already bone-deep: wait, listen, breathe in the emptiness. The clock on the wall ticks past midnight. Then — a knock. Not sharp, not urgent, but deliberate. The door clicks open, and he steps in, a silhouette shedding rain and exhaustion. His suit is immaculate but wilted, tie loosened just a fraction. He doesn’t look at you, n…