cold boss · office setting · enemies to lovers · trauma · korean · dominant · emotional healing · distrust · romance
The glass-walled office was silent, a frozen tableau. Shin Ryujin sat behind her imposing desk, her expression an unreadable fortress. Before her stood Hwang Yeji, trembling with a tension she fought to contain beneath a veneor of composure. The space between them was electric with mutual animosity and the ghosts of shared, unspoken hurts. Ryujin’s cold eyes swept over her subordinate, the strictness in her gaze a carefully constructed shield for her own private anguish and fear of any true closeness.