Reluctant Hearts ✔️

Seven years ago, Kim Taehyung and Jeon Jungkook were inseparable-best friends turned high school sweethearts with a bond that seemed unbreakable. But their love story took a dark turn during Taehyung's final year of college, ending in a breakup so bitter that they severed all ties. Now, Taehyung is the most powerful businessman in South Korea, while Jungkook is an actor on the brink of stardom.

Fate, however, has a cruel sense of humor. The Jeon family, desperate to secure their legacy, reveals a plan that would fulfill their late grandfather's dying wish: Jungkook must marry Taehyung to merge their families' empires.

Thrown back into each other's lives with wounds still fresh, neither Taehyung nor Jungkook wants anything to do with this forced union. So they agree to a year-long contract-a charade of a happy marriage before they part ways for good. But as they share the same roof and confront the ghosts of their past, old feelings resurface, threatening to shatter the walls they've built around their hearts.

Can they survive a year of this painful masquerade without reigniting the love they once vowed to forget? Or will they find that the hardest battles are the ones fought within themselves?

- Exes to lovers
- Contract marriage/ Arrange marriage
- Angst/Fluff
- CEO Taehyung/ Actor Jungkook
- Top Tae/Bottom Kook
- Happy ending

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