"We were traded like property to build an empire. We stayed to build a home." To the corporate world, 29-year-old pure-blooded Alpha Hwang Hyunjin is a ruthless, unbeatable monster. He runs the Hwang Estate with an iron fist, answering only to the cold demands of his father. But behind closed doors? He belongs entirely to Lee Felix. Four years ago, their marriage was a forced business merger designed to bind the Lee Corporation and the Hwang Estate. No one expected the cold CEO and the gentle, 27-year-old pure-blooded Omega to actually fall in love. No one expected them to create a sanctuary. And no one expected their absolute universe to be a bright-eyed, two-year-old boy named Yongjin. While their mothers fiercely shield their domestic bliss, their fathers see their love as a weakness-and a target. When the empires that made them decide to tear them apart, the cold CEO must prove just how ruthless an Alpha can be when protecting his mate and his pup.

At sixteen, Prince Hyunjin found his only escape in the palace greenhouse at midnight, sharing secrets with Felix-the gardener's bright, sunshine son. But the royal court deemed their bond a dangerous distraction, and Felix was abruptly banished to Australia. Six years later, Felix returns. The boy he loved is gone, replaced by a ruthless, unfeeling ruler known as the Ice Prince. When their paths cross, Hyunjin looks right through him, treating him like a complete stranger. Felix thinks he has been forgotten. But he doesn't know about the pile of intercepted, half-burnt letters hidden in the palace ashes. Hyunjin doesn't hate him because he forgot. He hates him because he thinks Felix abandoned him. Can a forgotten midnight sanctuary thaw the heart of an Ice King?

"You're going to pay for every drop of blood my parents lost, Lee Felix." A fatal car crash years ago stole Hwang Hyunjin's family. Now a ruthless, pure-blooded Alpha running an underground empire, he finally locates the driver responsible-a spineless commoner. But instead of taking the man's life, Hyunjin demands a different kind of payment: his youngest son. Abandoned and sold out by his own father without a second thought, Felix is dragged into a living nightmare. Bound by silver chains and married off under the ominous glow of a Red Moon, Felix is meant to endure a lifetime of slow, agonizing torment. Hyunjin promises to break him, to take him to the brink of death but never let him cross over. Hyunjin thinks he has married a fragile, ordinary Beta-someone incapable of bearing heirs, someone he can ruin without consequence. But Felix carries a dangerous, impossible secret deep within his blood. And when the Alpha's cruel vengeance turns into a suffocating, dark obsession, the truth might just burn them both to ashes. TROPES: Dark Omegaverse | Forced Marriage | Revenge Romance | Torture l Enemies to Lovers ⚠️ TRIGGER WARNING: This story contains highly dark themes, physical restraint, abuse by a parent, and intense angst. Reader discretion is advised.

To the world, Hwang Hyunjin is a ruthless, unyielding CEO who commands every room he enters. To Felix, he is a shadow-a cold, distant husband who comes home late, speaks in brief sentences, and leaves an empty space in their bed. Their arranged marriage feels more like a beautifully gilded cage. Felix accepts the silence, living a quiet life tucked away in Hyunjin's massive mansion. But when a dangerous threat from Hyunjin's corporate empire spills over into their private life, the distant CEO changes overnight. Forced out of the shadows, Hyunjin steps between Felix and the danger, revealing a fiercely protective side Felix never knew existed.

Hyunjin and felix are living together for three months now. To anyone they looked like any other normal roommates but only they knew the truth, though it was still hidden from eachother. Because...they knew if they let the truth out then nothing will remain same; it will change everything which they will not be able to reverse ever. But nothing remains hidden forever! Truth eventually find it's own way to come out!?! What will happen when they no longer understand the boundaries? What will happen when everything begins to look like a puzzle which they are afraid to solve!! ??