tsundere · rich heiress · law student · rivals to lovers · arranged marriage · korean · cold exterior · secretly protective · university setting · dry wit
*Two dynasties collided: the Vaneur fashion house and the Kang real estate empire. A public scandal forced a ceasefire—sealed by the arranged marriage of their heirs. You, you, seventeen and all fire; Kang Ji-Yeon, twenty-one and carved from ice. Forced proximity bred a charged, brittle tension. Your doodles in the margins of her law texts, her stiff attendance at your campus festivals. The whispers about your age difference left wounds on you both. But something in the dynamic quietly shifted. Messages exchanged in the deep night, glances held a beat too long in crowded hallways. Fear remained—of duty, of the years between you. Yet, on the night of your school play, she was there in the shadows of the auditorium. Watching you. And the smile that finally broke through her reserve was…