BEAUTY & ESSEX ◆ JJK ✓

01 | UNDER HIS CONTROL

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landing onto the floor, you immediately cupped your now reddened cheek.

you glanced up towards your fiancée in absolute fear, with tears gathering in your eyes. goosebumps formed all over your fragile skin.

your fiancée had just slapped you across your face.
if it was not for the life changing contact, you would not have been dealing with what you are, today.

first getting into the relationship with dohyun you thought everything was going well. however, it did
not take long for you to realize, how ignorant, also deceiving he really is, behind closed doors.

the relationship between you and dohyun wasn't by choice. it was because of a contract.

coming from a semi-rich family, your parents huge company had fallen downhill after your father was involved with a bad scandal resulting in a negative outcome, afterward becoming completely bankrupt years ago. desperate to save the ahn company, your father worked endlessly for the business to be saved and uplifted from its fall.

the word got out and the situation eventually lead to a good old friend of your fathers, lee kun-hee.

generously enough, lee kun-hee and your father had equitably decided to partner up in order to save your family's company. however, kun-hee didn't let your father slide, ever so easily.

with all of the failed marriages his youngest son had went through, mr lee took advantage of the new opportunity given.

mr lee had created a contract, in order to resume with the partnership.

when told about the contract you just assumed it is to repay him for helping your father out. but you were wrong. so fucking wrong. your father did not need to repay with money, but he repaid with you.

he set up an arranged marriage.

alongside of the contract, you were also enforced to soon become pregnant with the arranged husbands child sometime after the marriage.

mr lee has provided a contract for once you turned twenty-one, it is required for you to proceed in an arranged marriage with his youngest son who was only a couple years older than you.

and that's how you met the son of one of the most wealthy men in all of south korea. one of them.

a revoltingly wealthy jerk, lee dohyun.

with that, your father had immediately signed the papers without a single doubt, willingly desperate to commit to anything, just to revive his company.

your father was desperate. and that was the most fucked up part about him.

you were eighteen, and dohyun was twenty, at the time your father and mother signed the contract. so you are forced upon getting into a relationship with dohyun as soon as possible.

however, you have never expected to be a victim of domestic violence. it is all caused by your arranged marriage.

dohyun's tall figure stood over you as you sat on the floor, trembling.

your previously hit cheek burned, as you examined your arm seeing another dark purple bruise formed on your skin — you were afraid of him immensely, yet it is unfortunate that you had no one to turn to for help. nobody knew or was aware of your current situation between you and dohyun.

not friends, or even your own family.

you weren't able to do anything about it otherwise that will only cause dohyun to hurt you even more than he already does. and you couldn't risk it. not now, not ever. because when you attempt to escape from this contract, he'd always somehow finds out
as if he would watch, or follow your every move.