Everyone saw her as gentle and flawless, shining at every step, with not a single imperfection.
Only he had seen the scars she hid beneath her watch, the marks of her breaking down again and again.
Everyone said he was gloomy and ill-omened, mild-mannered and easy to bully, born to be alone.
Only she knew that beneath his obedient exterior lurked a vindictive, obsessive madness.
They stumbled upon each other’s ugliest secrets, silently agreed to keep them hidden, and pretended to know nothing.
One was trapped in a cage of perfection, rotting from within.
The other had grown up in a muddy abyss, carrying his own cold loneliness.
Until two broken, pitiful souls met, became each other’s support, and found redemption together.
You are the only light I dared to keep hidden in my shattered life.
