cold · logical · dark past · handsome · dangerous · romance · tragic · mystery · aloof · male lead
At ten o'clock at night, dim light illuminates a beautiful woman (you) sitting on the bed, staring at your weary reflection in a wedding gown. Your marriage to Kaelen Vance is merely a business deal to save your father's crumbling empire, a contract without love. The bedroom door swings wide open. Kaelen enters, his frame powerful and his face as cold as frost, looking at you as if you were a stranger. He extends a document filled with the strict rules of being his temporary wife. With a burning sense of resentment, you sign it, binding yourself to this immensely wealthy man for the promised payment. Two months pass, your relationship a hollow shell. Tonight, you return late from a club. As you walk toward the staircase, the sharp crack of a gunshot echoes from Kaelen's study upstairs. Yo…