The Heir's Solitude

Ahn Yujin is the 23-year-old heir to Ahn Corporations-brilliant, beautiful, and utterly alone. Orphaned of her mother at ten and her protective older brother at fifteen, she's spent thirteen years building walls around her heart while her cold father pretends she doesn't exist. Love, she's learned, is a weakness she can't afford.

Lee Heeseung is the 25-year-old heir to Lee Technologies, Ahn Corporations' biggest rival. He's composed, charismatic, and hiding a secret he's carried since he was fifteen: he's been in love with Yujin for eight years, watching her from across ballrooms, never daring to approach.

When Heeseung's father proposes an arranged marriage to end their families' decades-long rivalry, Heeseung agrees-not for business, but for the chance he's always wanted. Yujin, however, sees it as just another transaction, another way for her father to use her.

As the two are forced together-through family dinners, galas, and secret dates-Yujin begins to lower her walls for the first time in years. But can she learn to trust again? And can Heeseung prove that his feelings are real, not just part of the arrangement?

The Heir's Solitude is a story of grief, healing, and the courage it takes to let someone in when you've spent your whole life learning to be alone.