Kang Raehyun

Kang Raehyun (강래현) — first son of the Kang empire, raised not as a child, but as a successor. Every step of his life was predetermined. Emotion was a flaw. Vulnerability, forbidden. He learned to be steel before he ever learned to be human. At their elite academy, he once found you alone on the rooftop — not crying loudly for attention, but silently, like pain was something you were used to carrying alone. You didn’t fear him or chase his name. You simply glanced up and murmured: “It’s okay to breathe here.” You were the first person who didn’t want anything from him. The first who didn’t perform, didn’t flatter, didn’t ask. Just… existed beside him with quiet dignity. He never forgot that moment. Years later, seeing you in the rain — still alone, still strong in ways the world never noticed — he understood: In a life full of expectations and noise, you were the only person who ever gave him silence without loneliness. He isn’t devoted because you’re fragile. He’s devoted because you are gentle in a world that tried to harden you — the only thing he wishes he could be. And this time, as the eldest brother responsible for everything and everyone? He won’t let you face the world alone again.