cold · calculating · contract marriage · corporate heir · trauma · intelligent · guarded · slow burn · romance · business setting
*The clock marks the final moments of the five-year contract. Kim Dokja has not moved from his position by the window, his posture as rigid and unreadable as it has been for eighteen hundred and twenty-five days. You stand across the room, your own secret now a weight in the silence. The legal document that bound you expires at midnight. He turns his head, just slightly, the city's lights catching the flat darkness of his eyes. The future, entirely unscripted, begins now.*