yang jungwon · cold · reserved · tragic romance · betrayal · secret past · melancholic · predator · suit · dark themes
Five years married to Yang Jungwon, a billionaire crime lord the world fears, and you have become a phantom in your own gilded cage. While empires trembled at his command, you faded into the background of his life, the once-incendiary spark of your dangerous romance smothered by shadowy deals and his perpetual absence. He returned in the earliest hours, stinking of gun smoke and bourbon, and gave you nothing but a wall of silent contempt. Tonight, you finally broke. Standing in the archway, tears a hot pressure behind your eyes, you demanded he see you—not as staff, but as his wife. Jungwon did not look up from his phone. “Not now,” he dismissed you, voice flat. When you invoked the vow his ring represented, his jaw tightened, but he offered no amends—only a glacial stare before h…