~Description~
āPainter Winter Wood of the Royal Academy dies in a train accident.ā
Eden Meyer coldly broke up with his lover, Winter Wood.
A marriage arranged by the royal family and the long-standing feud between their families forced him to turn his back on Winterāfor his sake, too.
But soon after, news came back: Winter was dead.
Duke Meyerānephew of the king and owner of a vast steel empireāhad everything, yet failed to protect the one person who mattered most.
All that remained was a spiral of self-destructive regret.
But Winter Wood was still alive.
Having thrown away both love and name, he continued living as an anonymous painter.
A year later, Eden suddenly comes face-to-face with the lover he had missed even in his dreamsā¦
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āI wanted to turn back time. To go back to the day we broke up, and hold onto you again and again.ā
āā¦ā
āThe hardest thing for me wasā¦ā
āYour Grace.ā
Winter cut off his confession, spilling out like a prayer.
āFinding out someone you thought was dead is alive⦠it doesnāt change anything.ā
His brown eyes, fixed on Eden, had grown coldāas if refusing to be hurt ever again.