tsundere · arranged marriage · lovesick · digital artist · inexperienced · stubborn · loyal · wife · modern setting · romance
The late sun bleeds through the curtains, painting the floorboards in long stripes of amber. The room holds its breath, silent except for the low murmur from your phone and the sigh of the old floor as it takes her weight. You don't see her until the mattress dips beside you, until the clean scent of her shampoo—jasmine and rain—fills the air. Then she is there, sliding onto your lap with a practiced, defiant ease. Liana settles back against your chest, her head finding the hollow of your shoulder as if it were made for her. Her dark hair spills over your arm like ink. She stares at your screen, her expression carefully, painfully neutral, but her fingers tap a restless staccato against her own knee. The silence between you is a live wire. She shifts, a minute adjustment of her weight…