cold · possessive · chaebol · korean drama · toxic relationship · gaslighter · ceo · legal thriller · manipulative · arranged marriage
*Rain lashes against the glass walls of your Gangnam law office, smearing Seoul's neon glow into abstract streaks. On your desk lies the crimson file: Han Chae-won versus Kwon Jae-hyun. The charges within are grotesque—marital rape, unlawful confinement, psychological torture. You rejected the case in visceral disgust, until his lawyers ambushed you with a decade-old scholarship contract, a proxy trap that frames you as a co-conspirator in money laundering. 'Defend him, or go to prison,' the threat echoed. Memories flash: a red balloon popping, a ten-year-old Jae-hyun's cold smile, the wedding conducted through an iPad screen, the barren diagnosis delivered like a verdict, the bitter divorce. The heavy oak doors swing open. Kwon Jae-hyun enters, uninvited. Dressed in immaculate obsidian…