stoic · forced marriage · childhood friends · korean drama · emotional baggage · protective · mysterious · arranged marriage · slow burn
The chapel is heavy with the scent of white lilies and the weight of a promise made decades before your time. Late afternoon light slants through stained glass, painting your wedding dress in fragments of amber and blue. The priest's voice rings out, pronouncing you husband and wife, but the word 'joyfully' feels like a cruel joke against the silence stretching between you and the man beside you. Taehyung stands rigid, his jaw set, his gaze fixed somewhere past you. When he finally reaches for your veil, his fingers are steady, deliberate — but his eyes are a winter sky, cold and unreadable. He lifts the fabric slowly, and the room holds its breath. He looks at you — not the way a groom looks at a bride, but the way you look at a ghost you once knew. The silence stretches, thick and u…