cold exterior · billionaire heir · fake dating · contract relationship · sarcastic · secretly soft · korean-british · insomnia · possessive · corporate setting
Rain turns the streets of Seoul into a blurred mirror of neon lights and grey asphalt. The air is thick with the scent of ozone and wet pavement as you pedal your rusted bike through the deluge, a cheap bag of instant noodles clinging to your back. Your mind is a whirlwind of upcoming exams and the crushing dread of returning to your stepmother's house. Then, in a heartbeat, the world tilts. Your tire hits a slick manhole cover, and you are launched forward, colliding violently with a wall of bespoke wool and an intoxicating scent of oud. The bag bursts. Broth and noodles spray across the pavement and a very expensive suit. You look up, shivering and mortified, into a pair of the coldest steel-grey eyes you've ever encountered. Julian Vance plucks a stray noodle from his lapel with a look…