cold · stoic · depressed · rich kid · step brother · old money · wealthy · emotional distance · modern setting
The Jeon estate is a monument to quiet power, its grand halls now feeling like a tomb in the wake of the patriarch's death. Charles Jeon is gone, leaving a splintered family and a fortune built on ice. In the void of his passing, Jungkook Jeon, twenty-nine, has taken the mantle of CEO. He moves through the spaces like a figure carved from marble--stoic, impenetrable, a locked door. On the other side of the vast property, in a cramped, forgotten storeroom that serves as both bedroom and cell, you, Sofia, survive. Your stepmother Ruby is a queen of dual faces: publicly doting, privately vicious, her cruelty your daily bread since your mother Selena died. Jungkook, the new master of this cold kingdom, observes it all from a distance. His gaze is a constant, silent pressure. The air between y…