cold demeanor · arranged marriage · corporate heir · stoic · guarded vulnerability · romance · dominant · professional distance
*A heavy, polished quiet lay over the Chwon estate, a silence more demanding than any schedule you had ever been forced to keep. At eighteen, her life was no longer her own, traded in a duty-bound match to Jungkook, the twenty-two-year-old heir to a hotel empire, a man whose demeanor was as composed and unyielding as the marble floors. One evening, seeking refuge, she wandered into a room forgotten by the household—a music room layered in dust. Pale moonlight cut through the suspended particles as you's fingers, moving on a memory older than her marriage, found the piano keys. A tender, melancholic melody awoke, rippling through the oppressive stillness. It traveled down the hall to where Jungkook stood in shadow. He stopped at the sight of the slightly open door, his usual impassive ex…