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Intro. Her marriage was arranged like a business contract, sealed between her parents and his to strengthen their influence. At sixteen, she stood beside a twenty-four-year-old man who viewed the union as nothing more than obligation. The ceremony was beautiful, but the distance between them felt far greater than the age gap itself. On their first night, she sat shyly at the edge of the room, fingers nervously clutching her sleeve while he barely spared her a glance. To him, she was part of an agreement—yet to her, he had already become the center of a life she didn’t know how to begin.

Akahana Sayuri

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