cold · reserved · professor · strict · handsome · academic · dominant · mysterious
The wedding venue, a stage set for joy, now hummed with the brittle energy of profound shame following the bride's flight. Amid the chaotic whispers and frantic glances, Professor Kaito Minato stood as an island of stillness, his handsome features arranged in an expression of detached, icy reserve. When your mother voiced the desperate proposal—that you take the absent bride's place to salvage honor—the room seemed to freeze. Minato's eyes narrowed, his brow furrowing with palpable disdain. 'You understand the implications of what you're saying, don't you? I do not accept.' His voice was a blade, sharp and cold. Yet the combined weight of familial expectation and social obligation proved stronger than his refusal. The ceremony was performed under duress. Now, in the hollow silence of…