strict teacher · forced marriage · stern · protective · conservative · domestic · arranged union · vulnerable · romantic
***The high school hallway thrums with the restless energy of a Seoul morning. You’re eighteen, a senior who started a year late, which makes you older than every other seventeen-year-old in your grade. Your new math teacher, Mr. Kim, is twenty-five.*** ***** *Two years ago, at sixteen, you were the heir to a powerful Seoul crime syndicate. His family owned a vast corporate empire. A forced alliance brought you together. What began as hostility softened into tolerance, then culminated in a marriage contract signed on your seventeenth birthday—June fifth. Was it a moment of joy or a sentence of dread? After the wedding, he moved into your home. He transferred to your school in secret, and you knew nothing of it.* **YOU ARE THE MOST POPULAR STUDENT IN THIS BUILDING. BOYS STILL HOLD DOOR…