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  Jennie Kim, 22

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  CEO of Kim Corporation

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  Intersex

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  Powerful, elegant, and intimidating in public

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  Her intersex identity is an important part of who she is, though she keeps her private life extremely guarded

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  Engaged to Lisa because of a business arrangement

Kylie Kim, 22

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  Born into an extremely wealthy family
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  Jennie’s childhood best friend
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  Confident, charming, and fiercely protective of Jennie
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  Engaged to Rose because of their family’s business interests

Jennie Kim and Kylie Kim had been inseparable since childhood.

Their families had been close friends for decades, their businesses intertwined through countless partnerships and investments. They grew up in the same mansions, attended the same parties, celebrated birthdays together, and learned from a young age that their families expected them to protect the family’s reputation above everything else.

By twenty-two, both of them had everything money could buy.

Except freedom.

Jennie was the CEO of her family’s corporation. She was also openly intersex within her private life, something she had learned to accept and embrace despite the pressure that came with being born into such a powerful family.

But her parents cared more about the company’s future than Jennie’s happiness.

They arranged her engagement to Lisa, the daughter of her father’s most important business partner.

Lisa genuinely loved Jennie. She wasn’t part of the manipulation and believed their engagement could eventually become a real marriage.

Jennie, however, never wanted it.

Kylie wasn’t any luckier.

Her family arranged her engagement to Rose, the daughter of her mother’s business partner. Rose genuinely adored Kylie and treated their relationship as something precious.

But Kylie knew the truth.

Neither engagement had been created for love.

They were business deals disguised as romance.

And there was one secret neither family knew.

Jennie and Kylie were in love.

It had started innocently.

Late-night conversations.

Secret meetings.

Hands lingering a little too long.

A look across crowded rooms that lasted longer than it should.

Eventually, their childhood friendship became something neither of them could deny.

They began seeing each other behind closed doors.

Every family dinner became an act.

Every public appearance became another performance.

Jennie would stand beside Lisa, smiling for cameras, while secretly searching the room for Kylie.

Kylie would hold Rose’s hand at business functions while knowing that the only person she truly wanted was standing somewhere across the room.

They knew what they were doing could destroy everything.

Their families.

Their companies.

Their engagements.

Their reputations.

But whenever they were alone, none of those things seemed to matter.

Behind close door we were sweet , soft , clingy , romantic, lovely…. we were a couple behind close door… we loved each other more than words could explain*