Close enough to ruin eachother

A LOT OF CHAPTERS

An arranged marriage was supposed to be simple: signatures, appearances, and distance kept neatly between two lives that were never meant to overlap.

Sunghoon has spent years perfecting the version of himself the world expects-quiet, composed, untouched by anything that might make him seem "too much" of something they don't understand. Especially not the truth he's buried for far too long.

Jay has always known how to play his role: controlled, polished, and untouchable in the eyes of everyone watching.

But the image starts to crack when public attention turns cruel.

Rumors spread. Comparisons sharpen. And Sunghoon becomes the target of a hate train that reduces him to everything he's tried to hide-and everything others think they can define for him.

Then comes the cabin trip.

One bed. Forced proximity. A freezing night neither of them prepared for. And a moment neither of them was supposed to remember-when instinct pulls them closer than intention ever allowed.

But warmth is temporary.

Outside the cabin, the pressure grows worse. And when the world crosses a line it shouldn't have, Jay finally snaps-choosing Sunghoon's dignity over the image they were built to protect.

What starts as distance becomes awareness.
What starts as protection becomes something harder to ignore.

And somewhere between damage, silence, and accidental closeness... they begin to see each other as something more than a contract.