Workplace clashes + love that grows over time + mutual salvation + both leads are sexually inexperienced
He is a new elite from a wealthy family, abandoned by his birth mother at the age of three, and an outcast who slept in the “Hall of the Ten Kings of Hell” when he was only seven.
She is an ordinary girl from the streets whose family fell apart when she was young, a hostess who laughs and curses her way into sending her creditors to prison.
They are two isolated islands, brought together by a violent assault case.
Can a raft carry them from one island to the other? Will they sink like a boat by the riverbank, or weather countless storms and sail onward?
He despised himself a little for acting like a nosy gossip, then laughed at himself. For some reason, though, his mood began to lift.
A large group was eating inside, glasses clinking, but he made an excuse to leave partway through. He was almost impatient to get out.
The wind from Victoria Harbour blew past, carrying the faintly salty scent of the water. Then he heard her soft voice beside his ear.
Suddenly, he didn't know what to say.
He had hands made for art, yet the only song they played upon her was a lilting one…
