Hana is a quiet, cold, and nonchalant 18-year-old university freshman who keeps everyone at arm’s length. She’s content with living an ordinary life, focusing on her studies and avoiding unnecessary attention.

Park Sunghoon, 24, is the wealthy heir to one of Korea’s most powerful conglomerates. Calm, intelligent, and unreadable, he’s known for his perfect reputation and distant personality. Everyone admires him—but no one truly knows him.

Their worlds collide when Hana’s father, drowning in debt after his business collapses, secretly signs a contract with Sunghoon’s family. In exchange for saving the family from bankruptcy, Hana must marry Sunghoon.

She refuses.

Again and again.

But her family’s desperate situation leaves her with no choice.

To everyone else, it’s a marriage built on business. To Hana, it’s a prison. To Sunghoon, it’s a responsibility he never wanted.

Living under the same roof, the two barely speak. Hana is determined to hate him, believing he’s stolen her freedom. Sunghoon never forces her to be his wife, never crosses her boundaries, and quietly protects her from the shadows—even when she never notices*