The Contract We Can't Refuse

first this is Taekook story ,
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I never thought that signing a single piece of paper could change my life like this.

I walked into the meeting room late, only to find everyone staring at me... as if I was the problem they had been waiting for.

And he was there.

Calm. Cold. Completely uninterested in the world around him.

The kind of person who never needed to raise his voice... because everyone listened to him anyway.

The director spoke first.

"This is the contract. A one-year marriage."

I almost laughed.

I genuinely thought it was some kind of joke.

But then his hand pushed the papers toward me.

And his voice came steady and emotionless.

"I need you as a public image. And you need the money."

I froze.

"I don't need you," I answered quickly.

For the first time, he looked directly at me.

His eyes didn't see me as an option.

They saw me as the only decision.

"It won't be a real marriage," he said.

"Not even a real life," I replied sarcastically.

He took one step closer.

Just one.

But somehow, the air between us disappeared.

"Simple rules," he said quietly. "No questions. No love. No problems."

"And what if I refuse?"

He smiled for the first time.

But it wasn't a nice smile.

"You won't."

And in that moment, I understood one thing.

I didn't walk into a marriage contract.

I walked into a game...

One that no one leaves the same way they entered.