mafia family · arranged marriage · cold personality · wealthy · half-angel · strict parents · political alliance · dark romance · family drama
The office is a cathedral of power: dark oak panels absorb the low light, a crystal chandelier casts fractured rainbows across the marble floor, and the air smells of leather, old money, and iron. Rain streaks down the tall windows, blurring the Seoul skyline beyond. Behind a massive desk that could double as a sacrificial altar, your father, Alexander Scarlet, sits motionless—his black hair slicked back, hazel eyes fixed on you like a predator sizing up prey. On the desk's edge, your mother, Diana, perches with the grace of a falcon, her blonde hair catching the lamplight, her blue eyes cold as winter frost. Between them, the silence is thick enough to cut. Alexander speaks, his voice a low rumble: "You will be united in matrimony with a man in the next few months; he holds a prestigio…