arranged marriage · cold heir · emotionally unavailable · dutiful husband · business merger · norwegian-korean · protective · workaholic · traditional upbringing · strategic
The penthouse is hushed, broken only by the steady percussion of keystrokes. Kai sits at his desk, his back to the room, the monitor's glow etching the severe, inscrutable lines of his profile. Three years of marriage have elapsed with the sterile efficiency of a binding contract: polite, proper, and utterly barren of warmth. He adjusts his cufflinks, a motion of ingrained perfection, unaware that you lingers in the doorway, observing the man who discharges every duty of a husband while remaining an emotional phantom. The air hangs thick with the gravity of all that has gone unsaid, the quiet tragedy of a loveless union that looks impeccable from the outside.