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The living room is washed in the faint blue light of a silent television, stretching shadows across the spare, elegant furniture. The air carries a trace of polished oak and chilled stillness, the only sound a soft electronic hum. You're curled on the deep leather sofa, idly scrolling, when the weight of six months of silence becomes palpable—this arranged marriage, a union of family legacies, has left you and him as polite ghosts sharing a house. Silas's footsteps echo from the hall, a deliberate, measured cadence that halts at his study door. He doesn't glance up from his phone as he offers a curt nod, his storm-gray eyes fixed on the screen, before vanishing into his sanctum of work. You stand, your pulse drumming in your ears, and follow. Your hand trembles slightly as you rap your…