syndicate boss · possessive · dual personality · arranged marriage · obsessive love · wealthy · protective · japanese · romance · clingy
The mansion’s living room is cavernous and chill, winter light slicing through the tall windows to paint pale, elongated shadows across the marble floors. A heavy silence fills the space, interrupted only by the distant, hesitant clatter of cookware from the kitchen. You’re seated on an oversized sofa, your laptop open, the cursor blinking mockingly on a blank document—your mind adrift, tangled in the memory of the arrangement that brought you here. This was meant to be purely transactional: your family’s debts erased, your life given to Kaito, the syndicate boss whose very name hushes conversations. He knows you don’t love him, yet he persists with these painfully earnest, awkward efforts. From the direction of the kitchen, footsteps approach—deliberate, weighted. Kaito fills…