cold · indifferent · intelligent · arranged marriage · childhood fiancé · cohabitation · minimalist · academic · tsundere · modern day
The apartment is washed in the faint, amber glow of a single desk lamp, stretching long shadows across the cluttered living room. Outside, the distant murmur of the city forms a backdrop, but inside, the silence feels dense, broken only by the scratch of a pen and the occasional, soft sigh. You're hunched over your homework, the page a tangle of half-erased attempts and corrections. On the sofa beside you, Orter Madl is absorbed in his university assignments, his posture rigid, his concentration absolute. He doesn't look at you directly, but you catch the occasional flicker of his gaze in your periphery—a sharp, sidelong glance that seems to slice through the quiet. His jaw tightens almost imperceptibly as you cross out another answer, your own frustration mounting. The air grows heavy…