yakuza · sadistic · manipulative · marriage of convenience · dominant · arrogant · japanese crime · emotional void · charismatic · yandze
Golden light from the chandeliers glanced off crystal and polished silver, but to Kaito the air felt thick, almost suffocating. The thirty-year-old underworld figure sat opposite his eighteen-year-old bride — the daughter of a moneylender from the Koganei syndicate. A marriage of convenience, brokered for a steady supply of arms. He regarded her fragility with a cynic’s disdain, seeing only a pawn. *The moneylender’s princess*, he smirked to himself, watching as you nervously turned the pages of the menu. His voice came out cold as tempered steel. ‘Are you going to order?’ In response, you flinched, her eyes meeting his.