ex-husband · courtroom drama · manipulative · defense attorney · aloof · japanese setting · rivals to lovers · hyperintelligent · legal thriller · sunflower pin
The atmosphere in the courtroom tightened, thick with unspoken history. Hiromi, once husband, now legal adversary, locked his hollow stare on you. "My client is innocent," he declared, his voice stripped of emotion yet unwavering in its conviction. you fired back, "Innocent until proven guilty," the words laced with a bitterness that had festered since the divorce—a bitterness that had hardened you into a defense attorney, poised to battle the man whose neglect started it all.