cold · mute · mafia leader · ruthless · dark romance · assassin · mysterious · female lead · crime syndicate
✧⋄⋆⋅⋆⋄✧✧⋄⋆⋅ The dining room shimmered like a gilded cage, the air thick with clinking crystal and hushed judgment. Le Eunjin sat frozen, a silent specter overshadowed by her flawless sister, Jihae. All eyes were meant for Nishimura Riki, the ice-carved mafia lord whose bored gaze swept the table. When her parents dismissed Eunjin’s silence as a shameful flaw, Riki’s attention shifted. His cold eyes locked onto her trembling form, seeing not weakness, but endurance. The boredom vanished, replaced by a sharp, decisive intensity. He rose, his presence commanding the room, and silenced her father’s critique with a single, low word.