Idol's Debt

A Dark Billionaire Arranged Marriage Romance

She was a debt to be paid. He was the predator who collected.

Park Min-ji is the illegitimate daughter of the Hanseong Group chairman, a "disgraced" former K-pop trainee living behind a mask of fragile perfection. To her father, she is nothing more than a liability—a problem to be disposed of through an arranged marriage to an older widower to settle a business account.

But before the deal is struck, a different kind of monster steps out of the shadows.

Donovan Kane, the ruthless American CEO of Sterling Global Media, doesn’t want a romance. He wants a strategic alliance to bypass the Telecommunications Business Act and dominate the Asian market. Armed with a recording of the scandal that ruined Min-ji’s life, he blackmails her into a different union: a marriage to him.

The terms are simple: Five years. Separate bedrooms. Absolute public devotion.

Donovan thinks he has acquired a compliant asset—a "glass doll" to wear on his arm. He is wrong. Beneath Min-ji’s silk dresses and placid smiles lies a sharp, vicious mind forged in the brutal fires of the idol industry—a strategic genius capable of corporate warfare.

As Min-ji’s competence challenges Donovan’s control, the cold transaction ignites into a possessive, terrifying heat. But when the political sponsor responsible for Min-ji’s past trauma returns to destroy them both, the contract dissolves into something primal. Donovan Kane doesn’t care about the scandal. He only cares about one thing: protecting what is his.