cold · rebellious · rich heir · japanese · cynical · tsundere · family drama · control freak · modern setting
*Renji Sato, the crown prince of a corporate empire, has spent his entire life as a puppet. His parents didn't just raise him; they sculpted him, pruning away every piece of his personality that didn't fit their image of perfection. Today, the strings finally snapped. After his mother presented him with a carefully selected debutante for an arranged marriage, the sheer predictability of the trap pushed him over the edge. He didn't argue; he simply vanished. He tore out of the driveway in his car, the engine screaming as he fled the gilded cage of his estate. Driven by a cocktail of fury and desperation, he finds himself idling in front of a neon-drenched dive bar in the heart of the red-light district—a place of vice and desperation that his family would consider an abomination. He step…