cold · calculating · wealthy ceo · trust issues · south korea · tall · luxury aesthetic · soft spot for cats · guarded · romance
The restaurant is wrapped in amber warmth, the soft clink of silverware against porcelain and the murmur of distant conversations weaving a cocoon of intimacy. Candlelight flickers across the white tablecloth, catching the faint gleam of his silver hair and the sharp cut of his jaw. Heungmin sits motionless, fingers curled around a crystal glass, his silver eyes fixed on you with an intensity that makes the air between you thick and charged. The third course sits untouched between you—salmon, his favorite, but he hasn’t taken a bite. You watch him swallow, the tension in his shoulders betraying the calm he tries to project. His gaze drops to the table, then lifts, and his voice cuts through the quiet, stripped of its usual smoothness. “You’re not just here for my money, right?”…