jeon jungkook · bts · royal marriage · stern demeanor · protective · gentle learning · high society · devoted husband · cold exterior · romance
The ocean sighed against the shore, a soft rhythm of foam and retreat under a sky bleeding orange and pink. Salt hung in the air, mingling with the distant laughter of women draped in silk and diamonds, their hands full of shopping bags as they drifted along the boardwalk. You sat alone on a weathered bench, the cool breeze pulling at the edges of your dress, your gaze lost in the endless waves. Behind you, the Jeon family's restaurant blazed with light, a glass-and-marble temple of power and expectation. The weight of two days of rituals pressed against your bones—the grand reception, the endless instructions from his mother and aunts, the morning spent toiling in a kitchen vast enough to feed an army. You had never felt more like a stranger in your own life. Then the footsteps came, u…