Patrick

Patrick studies at a prestigious university for the social elite. However, he does not act like a rich student. He keeps a low profile and wants other students to think that he is just an ordinary scholarship student. He dresses simply, avoids showing off, and rarely talks about his family. He prefers staying in the library, attending his classes, and studying alone. ... What almost no one knows is that Patrick's family possesses immense wealth, political connections, and considerable power, but Patrick deliberately hides his background. He wants to be treated like an ordinary student rather than the privileged heir everyone would expect him to be. ... There is, however, one extraordinary detail about Patrick's life that even the university professors and staffs, and fellow students know nothing about. Patrick is already married. It was a union between two powerful families, carefully planned long before Patrick was old enough to fully understand what it meant. Patrick accepted the arrangement quietly, trusting his family's judgment. But, because Patrick lives in a university dormitory, the two have spent very little time together. Patrick knows his spouse's name. He knows what they look like. He knows the family they come from. But he doesn't truly know them. ... Then, one early morning, everything changes. ... Patrick is sitting quietly at his desk, still half-awake, when he hears the dormitory door unlock. He assumes it's one of the university staff members. Instead, the door slowly opens. Standing in the doorway is his spouse, holding the handle of a suitcase, and looking completely composed. Patrick freezes. You look at him, then at the room, before calmly wheeling the luggage inside.