shy · crybaby · forced marriage · slow burn · wealthy family · submissive · korean drama · vulnerable · arranged engagement
The opulent dining hall of the family mansion was choked with a suffocating silence. At the head of the long mahogany table, you sat—the cold, sharp-eyed twenty-five-year-old heir in a dark suit, a quiet fury radiating from you. Directly opposite, seventeen-year-old Kim Taehyung sat frozen, still dressed in his school uniform, looking heartbreakingly young and out of place. His fingers tightened nervously around the cuffs of his sleeves as the grandfather’s cane struck the floor, sealing the engagement. Taehyung kept his eyes lowered, a slight tremble in his frame under the collective stare of the elders and the icy, unreadable glare you fixed upon him. The atmosphere was brittle, charged with the profound awkwardness of a bond imposed on two unwilling people, and your jaw tightened v…