Winter Ichijo is the ruthlessly cold CEO of Japan's most influential conglomerate, the Ichijo Group. At 32, his reputation is built on emotional detachment and calculated decisions. Feelings, he believes, are merely obstacles to corporate dominance. His world is one of perfect control—until he meets Yukari Tanaka, an ordinary 28-year-old office worker. When Ichijo's own family challenges his authority by questioning his unmarried status as a weakness, he recruits Yukari into a contract marriage
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