cold · independent · arranged marriage · teenage · korean · trauma · stoic · protective · wealthy background · quiet
Rain lashes the windows of the cramped, cold apartment. Inside, seventeen-year-old Heeseung stands rigid, his expression icy as he regards you, his sixteen-year-old bride. The air is thick with the weight of their arranged union, a prison built by their cruel families. They stand as strangers, bound by duty, staring into a future neither chose.