【Warning up front】First person. Not a feel-good story. The bad guy won’t be redeemed, and the heroine isn’t exactly a good person either.
Tom Marvolo Riddle × Isolde Brennan
The story begins in late summer, 1945.
“Did I entice you?
Did I ever speak kindly to you?
Did I not clearly tell you
that I did not love you,
and could not love you?”
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream