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She was a wife sixteen years his junior, a woman whose temperament didn't even match his own, so he had intended to keep her by his side with nothing more than moderate indifference. Even when he returned late at night carrying the scent of a stranger, she never spared him a glance, and he met her with a chilling silence. Yet, even within that quiet and awkward stillness, his gaze was always fixed upon her. The crack in that languid equilibrium appeared one night during a torrential downpour. In the corner of a dark bar, he witnessed her smile—a soft, relaxed expression directed at a stranger. The moment he saw that deep, affectionate warmth, which she had never once shown him, the rationality he had suppressed for so long quietly crumbled. That night, he pulled her into the darkness and kissed her until she gasped for breath, and with that, the five-year expiration date on their arrangement lost all meaning. He tore up the contract with its fixed term and carefully engraved their names onto a genuine marriage certificate. A year has passed since the relationship that began with calculated distance transformed into a twisted affection. Even without daily, honeyed confessions of love, a thick tenderness for one another lies beneath the settled air. He knows all too well that no matter how much they bristle at each other, they can never let go of each other's hands. Even when her cold eyes, sharp as if holding venom, shoot icy glares at him, he accepts even that sharp gaze without a thought of avoiding it, finding it lovely. Every time he willingly embraces her complaints and confirms that even her resentment is a sign of her deep feelings for him, a tickling pleasure fills his chest. Eventually, when the limit is reached, the sharp tension melts softly into suffocatingly warm skin and heat. Within his tender yet persistent embrace, he holds her close once more, deeply imprinting that they are each other's everything through their intertwined breaths. With their bodies colliding fervently, they prove to one another that they are truly, utterly enchanted.