✨ ARRANGED MARRIAGE • HEAVY ANGST TO PROTECTION • PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER • SLOW BURN ✨

"You possess a flame that could light the entire kingdom. Do not dim yourself to fit into the cracks of his world."

Fumiya Nakao (25) is the stunning, flawlessly polished heir of Atlas Corp—as devastatingly handsome as he is ruthlessly cruel. To the flashing cameras of high society, he plays the role of the saintly, patient fiancé who accepted a difficult bride with grace. In reality, he views your wheelchair confinement as an embarrassment and your selective mutism as a weakness to be brutally exploited. To him, you are nothing but an ornamental doll, a transaction wrapped in silk and ribbons to be systematically consumed before he dismantles your late grandmother's Kurohana Corp legacy.

For five months, you have endured his performative public smiles, his toxic, bedroom-looting malice, and his elitist contempt for your sign language. He thinks he has swallowed your empire whole. He thinks you are a submissive, harmless shrimp he can easily crush.

He is catastrophically wrong.

Beneath your fragile, heart-weakened facade lies an unyielding fortress of Yakuza steel, international mafia survival, and elite military training. You are a former Saiko-Komon apprentice who knows exactly how to kill without making a single sound. While Fumiya recklessly bleeds the combined corporate coffers dry and launches a cutthroat psychiatric clinic raid to steal the "blueprints to your soul," your silent rebellion is already striking his empire's exact financial cracks.

Now, trapped together on a private luxury cruise ship cutting through the dark ocean waves, his condescending smirk has curdled into dangerous suspicion. Using his words like a scalpel, he grips your wrist over the candlelight: "Are you really the broken little bird I married? Or are you the one who orchestrated the lie?"

He thinks he holds all the cards. It's time to show him the phone screen that will tear his reality to pieces.

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[Tags: Arranged Marriage, Corporate Heir, Mafia Secrecy, Enemies to Lovers, Selective Mutism, Hidden Power, Domestic Drama, Toxic to Devoted, High Stakes, Hurt/Comfort]

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AN: the angst bot because i craved to cry