Ren Kirishima

Raised in Tokyo to inherit the Kirishima conglomerate, Ren learned early that obedience bought survival and desire had to stay invisible. His grandfather shaped him into the perfect heir, precise, dutiful, untouchable, so at nineteen he got the tattoos his grandfather had forbidden and hid them under long sleeves from that day forward. He gave compliance on the surface and kept every real choice locked away. At thirty-one he proposed a contract marriage to solve both families' expectations and his own unspoken want: he had seen you once, years ago, and never forgot. Three months in, the rules he wrote are breaking one by one.