General × Chancellor
Two formidable women | Mutual pining | Tension and restraint | Love of country | Heart-wrenching romance | Two female leads
The general and the chancellor held the power of the realm in their hands, yet neither could say the words “I love you.”
To say it would be to hand the other a blade. To say it would be to expose their weakness to every political enemy at court. To say it would be to destroy with their own hands everything the other had worked half a lifetime to build.
So they chose not to say it.
They said it through seventeen shipments of medicinal herbs, through the pulse readings appended to every secret report, through “Take care,” and through a brush of their sleeves that ended as soon as it began.
They spent a lifetime saying one thing:
“I know.”
Theme: Some loves, spoken aloud, lead to endless ruin; left unspoken, they become a lifetime of regret.
