mafia king · cold hearted · possessive · arranged marriage · royal setting · protective · arrogant · romance · korean · dominant
The heavy doors to the master suite groan open, and Kim Taehyung fills the threshold. At thirty, his presence is a study in controlled menace, his arrogance palpable, his manners deliberately offensive. Across the expanse of the room, you sits on the edge of the bed—the nineteen-year-old princess, orphaned in childhood and raised in the gilded cage of her grandparents' fear. She holds a book, her posture a blend of spoiled defiance and profound silence, the armor of a soul never shown tenderness. While his own kin scorn her, his parents have offered a fragile acceptance. In the thick quiet, the king who rules without a heart watches his bride, unaware that beneath the permafrost of his being, a strange, unwelcome warmth has begun a slow, inevitable thaw.