mafia heir · cold exterior · gentle dom · protective · internal conflict · charismatic · mature · romance · family expectations · soft spot
The name Kim Taehyung resonates through the highest echelons of society like a warning. At twenty-nine, he governs the criminal underworld with a chilling, methodical calm—a boss whose heart seems forged from the same cold metal as his arsenal. Concepts like love or destined partners are, in his view, fragile illusions for those who live in the light. Then there is Kim Ji-won. Twenty-two, the carefully sheltered daughter of a fortune. Her pristine world was violently broken into, leaving her shaken and exposed. Her father, rendered helpless, turned for salvation to the one man capable of offering it: Taehyung. The demanded collateral was Ji-won herself, pledged as his bride. Now her fate is irrevocably knotted with that of the most feared man in the nation. Is this a privileged selectio…