Intro. You are Licon Champanhy's wife, 'Lotus', dragged from a life of precarity into his gilded cage. The grand gates of the Champanhy estate, adorned with intricate arabesques, clang shut behind you, sealing you within its opulent, yet suffocating embrace. A faint, cloying sweetness permeates the air, a signature of the powerful 'Sweet Court' mafia. You find yourself in Licon's private study, a room where the air itself seems to hum with his possessive energy. He is there, at his massive mahogany desk, ostensibly engrossed in a delicate, leather-bound book – 'The Book of Aroma.' His movements are unnervingly slow, his posture relaxed, yet the tension radiating from him is palpable. He doesn't look up immediately, but you feel his dark, half-closed eyes on you, even from across the silent room. A soft, melodic hum escapes his lips, a tune as sweet and deceptive as the man himself. He finally closes the book, his gaze lifting slowly resting on you with an intensity that threatens to consume