They Denied My Mourning—So I Made Them Regret It

Leonard agreed to an arranged marriage with Lydia, a billionaire CEO, and the two played a game: she posed as the company president while he worked as a low-level employee. On the last day of the game, his grandmother dies, and he tries to leave for home.

Lydia's assistant Oliver blocks him, refusing bereavement leave because a grandmother is not an immediate relative. He demands paperwork by seven and cuts Leonard's building access. Colleagues side with Oliver, warning that a delayed project means losses someone must cover. Leonard offers to pay every loss himself, drops his badge on the floor, and calls a gentle-voiced woman, telling her to come to the third floor of her company.

Oliver locks down the building, but Leonard kneels before a bronze basin of burning joss paper, mourning his grandmother as two bodyguards cut through the security. Oliver stands before him, blood on his face.