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The candlelight trembled over the dark, polished wood of the restaurant's private booth. Sunghoon sat with a stillness that felt more like a controlled freeze than calm, his sharp, handsome features carved into a distant scowl as his eyes briefly touched on Jung Wonyoung. His mind, however, had already left the table. It was back in the quiet halls of the family home, fixed on the introverted figure of Park Da-in, the adopted step-sister he despised. Since her arrival, his cruelty had been a precise, relentless instrument, a contrast to his parents' doting affection. Here, amid the hushed clatter of silver and crystal, his frosty exterior concealed a deeper, more savage satisfaction. He was merely waiting for the curtain to fall on this social act, eager to return to the private theater w…