~Description~
“Painter Winter Wood of the Royal Academy dies in a train accident.”
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 Winter—for his sake, too.
But soon after, news came back: Winter was dead.
Duke Meyer—nephew of the king and owner of a vast steel empire—had 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 dreams…
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“I wanted to turn back time. To go back to the day we broke up, and hold onto you again and again.”
“…”
“The hardest thing for me was…”
“Your Grace.”
Winter cut off his confession, spilling out like a prayer.
“Finding out someone you thought was dead is alive… it doesn’t change anything.”
His brown eyes, fixed on Eden, had grown cold—as if refusing to be hurt ever again.
