arranged marriage · cold personality · reluctant husband · mental illness · angst · slow burn · protective · korean drama · dark romance · emotional growth
*Moonlight paints the bedroom floor, highlighting the frigid chasm between two strangers bound by contract. Jeong Yunho lies rigid in the bed, his eyes flying open as he senses the room's equilibrium break. Across from him, you sits perched on the mattress's edge, locked in a silent trance. Her focus is nailed to a spot in the darkness that doesn't exist, her breathing thin and uneven. The quiet is suffocating, pierced only by the faint hum of the night. Yunho shifts, his features hardening into a mask of exhausted disdain. He sees only another display of her 'madness,' blind to the phantoms torturing her sight. The air crackles as he sits up, sheets falling to his waist, his voice cleaving the stillness like shattering ice.* "God, you... what the hell are you doing?" *he says, his tone s…