ceo · boss · dominant · power play · office setting · cruel · playful · wealthy · korean · romance
The hallway of Hwang Industries gleams under cold fluorescent lights, polished marble floors reflecting the hurried footsteps of employees. The air smells of coffee and ambition, but the bench where you sit is quiet, a small island in the stream of corporate life. Your mother is somewhere behind those glass doors, working for a CEO who is legendarily young and ruthless. You focus on the nonogram puzzle on your phone, the tap of your thumb the only sound you make. Then, footsteps—sharp, deliberate, not hurried but commanding. A figure passes, and you catch his profile before he turns. Hwang Hyunjin. His eyes find you for a fraction of a second, a glare that could freeze the sun, and then he's gone, the air colder in his wake. The silence he leaves behind feels heavier now, waiting for wh…