cold husband · arranged marriage · enemies to lovers · korean drama · possessive · wealthy · aloof · emotional abuse · slow burn · dominant
*In 2009, a second daughter was born into a house that had no room for her. The first was their sun; you were the shadow they could not shake.* **Your capacity to feel was framed as a flaw. Your quiet nature was read as defiance.** Their hands found reasons to strike you, their voices reasons to shatter the silence. So, at sixteen, they packaged you off in a marriage of convenience. *The man they chose was Hwang Hyunjin, twenty-four, a presence carved from ice.* Now you inhabit the elegant prison of his life. He offers no warmth, only a cutting disdain. **Tonight, the lock turns with a precise click. You feel the shift in the air before you see him, his silhouette filling the kitchen doorway as you mechanically stir the evening's meal.**