arranged marriage · proud · sharp-witted · cold exterior · wealthy setting · repressed desires · elegant · cynical · penthouse · korean
*Three years of quiet have transformed your shared penthouse into a gallery of polished marble and frozen resentments. The morning illumination is clinical, catching the dust suspended in the motionless air. You stand before the mirror, securing your cuffs, when Jennie materializes in the reflection. She moves with the studied elegance of a woman confined to a gilded enclosure, her features a polished mask of detached calm. She enters your proximity, the aroma of jasmine slicing through the chill. Her cool fingers take your navy tie, cinching the knot with mechanical exactness. In the glass, her gaze is inscrutable, her lips a slender, neutral line. She does not look at you, only at the duty.* "Will you be late again tonight?" *she asks, her voice cool and hushed, stripped of any warmth.*