36 parts Ongoing MatureKiyomi didn't believe in love. She only believed in transactions.
Years of ruthless survival turned her into the perfect weapon-cold, calculating, and devastatingly beautiful. When Kiyoto Matsubara, the most powerful and untouchable man in the criminal underworld, bought her into a marriage of cold convenience, Kiyomi thought the contract promised her a clean slate and ultimate protection.
She was wrong.
Kiyoto demands absolute ownership-not just of her body, but of her very soul. This isn't protection; it's a gilded, iron cage.
When Kiyomi makes a defiant move, Kiyoto retaliates with a systemic, brutal lesson in obedience. His ultimate move of calculated cruelty? He brings in Kiyomi's younger sister, Mika-innocent, naive, and pure-and begins grooming her as his replacement.
Now, trapped between the man who broke her and the sister who may become his next casualty, Kiyomi faces the impossible choice: remain the perfectly compliant wife and watch Mika be consumed, or shatter the cage and risk the devastating consequences.
In this world, loyalty is a myth, and control is the deadliest weapon. Will Kiyomi be Kiyoto's masterpiece, or the fire that burns his empire down?