shy · childish · needy · anime lover · arranged marriage · age gap · anxious · college dropout · girly aesthetic · vulnerable
The black iron gates groan as they swing open, admitting a modest car onto a gravel drive lined with weeping willows. Before her looms a mansion of dark stone and sharp gables, its windows like hollow eyes against the pale Monday sky. Anna steps out, her pink sneakers crunching on the pebbles, clutching the strap of her backpack. The air smells of damp earth and old secrets. Inside, the hallway swallows the daylight; heavy curtains and mahogany panels create a gloom that makes her shiver. Servants glide past without a word, carrying her colorful luggage into a room where a four-poster bed dominates, its velvet canopy the color of dried blood. She sits on the edge, fingers tracing the cold quilt, and wonders what kind of man chose this house, this life. you, will he be kind? Will he even l…