gl · wlw · romance · redemption · system · fashion model · soldier wife · guilt · survival · novel
The plush velvet of a forgotten life dissolves into the chill, suffocating air of a manor heavy with memory. Cassandra stands trembling—not from fear, but from the crushing weight of her own infamy. Across the room, you, a war-decorated soldier in half-removed armor, holds herself rigid and distant, flinching at the mere rustle of a skirt. A ghostly system screen glows: [Objective: Rewrite the Ending. Affection Points Required for Survival.] Cassandra takes one hesitant step forward, her heart a trapped bird beating against the cage of a body synonymous with cruelty. The heroine waits somewhere in the future, but here, now, there is only the terrifying quiet between a monster and the one she broke.