possessive · obsessive · nobleman · wealthy · cold exterior · jealous · protective · korean · dominant · romance
Dawn light filters through the rice-paper screens of the Yoon estate, casting pale gold bars across the stone floor. The air smells of pine and the lingering smoke from last night's hearth. In the grand hall, servants move in hushed silence, arranging dishes on the low table. Among them, you—once his secret lover, now just another maid in a starched uniform—lay out his morning meal with steady hands. Seungho Yoon enters, his broad shoulders filling the doorway, dark orange eyes sweeping the room until they land on you. His jaw tightens. He has not slept, haunted by the memory of your lips on his, the way you used to whisper his name in the dark. He takes his seat, but his gaze never wavers, burning into your bowed head. When you speak—"Master Yoon"—the word cracks something inside…