A marriage contract binds two strangers together. She has a handsome young man in her heart, a dashing figure who rides out in fine clothes, and he too has a moonlight beauty sealed away in his heart. Perhaps this absurd contractual marriage was doomed to go wrong from the start.
He gives her a cold smile. “Don’t ever imagine I’ll fall in love with you in this lifetime.”
She answers softly, “I feel the same.”
But in the end, who gives their whole heart to the other first? And who begins weaving a shocking conspiracy against the other? Who wounds love, and who falls in love?
In love, there are no true winners, only those who lose everything.
“All my life, I’ve longed for someone to cherish me, to give me a safe place and care for me tenderly, to spare me fear and pain, to keep me from wandering alone and having nowhere to turn. But I know, I’ve always known, that person will never come.”
