For seven years, Lingling Kwong and Orm Sethratanapong loved each other quietly. Not a secret. Never a secret. Just private-a love protected from cameras, headlines, and the world. From their first year of college through graduation and their rising careers, they grew together. Orm became Thailand's beloved leading lady, while Lingling built her own name as a brilliant lawyer. Through it all, they were each other's home. Until their seventh anniversary. Lingling got down on one knee. Orm said no. Not because she didn't love her-but because she wasn't ready. Her career was at its peak, and she wasn't willing to let their carefully guarded relationship become tomorrow's biggest headline. Lingling understood. She waited. But months passed, and the distance between them grew. Until one quiet Sunday, Orm made the hardest decision of her life. She let Lingling go. That was the last day they saw each other. Four years later, Orm never loved anyone again. Then one morning, a headline stopped her heart: LAWYER LINGLING KWONG SET TO MARRY. As Orm stared at the woman she once promised forever to, she realized the truth she had spent four years trying to forget- Some loves don't disappear just because you let them go. But what happens when the love you lost has finally learned how to live without you? Will fate give them a second chance-or is it finally too late? #LingOrm

Eleven years ago, Ling walked away without an explanation, leaving Orm to believe she had traded their love for a better future. Since then, they've built separate lives, carrying the same heartbreak but very different truths. When an unexpected reunion brings them back into each other's orbit, old wounds begin to reopen, and the story Orm has lived with for over a decade no longer feels as certain. As buried secrets surface and the years between them slowly unravel, both women must decide whether love can survive the weight of silence, sacrifice, and the life they lost. Sometimes, the hardest distance to cross isn't measured in miles, it's measured in the years between us.

**IF YOU EVER FIND ME** Twenty-six years ago, Orm Kornnaphat left Thailand believing the woman she loved would follow her. Lingling never came. No goodbye. No explanation. No trace. Years later, their daughter, **Pansa "Milk" Vosbein**, returns to Bangkok carrying little more than an old camera, a collection of photographs, and the stories her mother spent a lifetime telling her about the woman she never got to meet. Milk has only one question. **What happened to Lingling Sirilak Kwong?** But searching for someone who disappeared decades ago means reopening a past powerful families worked very hard to bury. Old photographs begin revealing familiar faces. Forgotten friends return with pieces of stories they never realised were connected. And the deeper Milk searches, the more she discovers that the love story she grew up hearing was tangled in family rivalry, betrayal, sacrifice, and secrets that survived long after the people who created them. Somewhere between the life Orm remembered and the truth Milk is beginning to uncover lies the answer to a twenty-six-year-old disappearance. And perhaps some promises are powerful enough to survive even when memory does not. **A story about love, family, memory, loss, and finding your way back to someone who never truly stopped waiting.**

Ling (GIP) One devastating, rainy night changes two lives forever. ​For Orm, it's the night her life falls apart. Heartbroken and dumped after refusing to compromise her values, she wanders the city streets completely numb-until a blinding flash of headlights changes everything. ​For Ling, it's the night her happily-ever-after is brutally stolen from her. A sudden crash takes her new wife's life, leaving Ling consumed by a burning, relentless thirst for revenge against the drunk girl who caused it. ​When Ling orchestrates a cruel, elaborate trap-forcing a desperate Orm into a fake marriage built entirely on lies-she plans to shatter Orm the way her own heart was shattered. She promises herself she will remain cold, indifferent, and ruthless. But secrets have a way of unraveling, a hidden pregnancy changes the stakes, and the line between burning hate and consuming love begins to blur. ​Can a love born from vengeance ever survive the truth?

Lingling Sirilak Kwong and Orm Kornnaphat Sethratanapong are rich heiresses from two powerful families, forced into an arranged marriage neither of them wants. When both refuse the family union, their parents decide to teach them a lesson by sending them to a rural village in the outskirts of Thailand, forcing them to live as a married couple without luxury, servants, or city privilege. Lingling, surprisingly, knows how to survive thanks to childhood camping trips with her grandfather. Orm, however, has never lived without comfort, and the countryside quickly becomes her personal nightmare. Between muddy roads, village gossip, nosy neighbors, and daily arguments, two spoiled heiresses must learn how to survive marriage, poverty, and each other. From powerful heiresses to countryside disasters. And somehow, love might be the biggest problem of all.

PROLOGUE People often described Ling as cold. Perhaps it was the way she rarely smiled, or how her calm voice always sounded distant enough to keep others away. Ling never cared enough to correct them. Distance was easier. Feelings complicated things, and love had always seemed like the kind of illusion that eventually disappointed everyone. So when her grandfather informed her about the arranged marriage, Ling accepted it quietly. The woman she was supposed to marry was named Orm. Gentle. Soft-spoken. Far too kind for someone entering Ling's world. "You only need to protect her legally," Pakorn had told her. "Once everything settles down, you can divorce peacefully." At the time, Ling believed him. She believed distance would prevent attachment. She believed kindness did not always mean sincerity. Most of all- she believed she would never become the kind of person capable of destroying someone who loved her. Years later, Ling would learn how wrong she had been. DISCLAIMER This story is purely fictional. It has no connection to real-life events, individuals, or entities, whether living or deceased. Any similarities are purely coincidental and unintentional. Ling Ling Kwong & Orm Kornnaphat, of course, are lovely girls and not as the characters mentioned in this fanfiction. Remember, this is a fanfiction! Enjoy! **All photos are credited to their respective owners.

She was supposed to be temporary. She was never supposed to become everything. Orm has no interest in complicated relationships, especially not with Lingling-the intimidating, impossible-to-read woman who seems determined to get under her skin. But when one innocent misunderstanding turns into a very public rumor, the two women find themselves trapped in a situation neither of them expected. A little pretending shouldn't hurt. A few staged appearances. A few stolen glances. A few touches for the cameras. Simple, right? Except Lingling has a way of looking at Orm that makes pretending feel dangerously real. And Orm is beginning to wonder whether every lingering touch, every jealous glance, and every moment when Ling forgets they're supposed to be acting is actually part of the act. There are rules. Don't fall in love. Don't get jealous. Don't cross the line. But what happens when the line disappears? Sometimes the most dangerous love story begins with two people insisting- "It's only pretend."

Moving in together was supposed to be easy. It wasn't. Lingling Kwong and Orm Kornnaphat quickly discover that love doesn't magically make domestic life smooth-it just makes the chaos a little sweeter. From disastrous cooking attempts and competitive grocery shopping to accidental pet adoptions and nightly blanket wars, their life becomes a mess of laughter, teasing, and quiet, heart-stealing moments. They argue. They laugh. They make up. They fall in love a little more every single day. Because home isn't about perfection. It's about who you come back to... even after everything goes wrong. Different scenarios of their daily lives.

Ling, a fiercely driven soccer star who has spent her life bracing for loss, falls in love with Orm, her equal in strength and resolve. As their relationship deepens amid professional pressure, public scrutiny, and Ling's struggle to loosen her grip on control, they choose to build a life together. When Orm becomes pregnant, love is tested not by tragedy, but by vulnerability-by waiting, trusting, and learning to stay present instead of fearful. Through labor, parenthood, and the quiet years that follow, Ling learns that true strength isn't dominance or defense, but steadiness. Together, Ling and Orm grow from partners into a family, choosing each other every day and finding peace in a life built with intention, love, and care.

Please be advised: This story explores themes of domestic violence and emotional abuse. Also, features a romantic relationship between non-blood-related stepsisters. Reader discretion is advised. It seems like a Cinderella story, but not really. The story follows an orphaned girl living a fractured life under a cruel stepmother and stepsister. But in the shadows of their shared home, she finds an unexpected lifeline. What begins as a shared trauma evolves into a secret, moonlit romance, a bond so intense it becomes the orphan's entire world. However, as the moon cycles shift, she realizes that her love for her sister, while healing, has become a beautiful cage. To truly find her own peace and identity, she must eventually take the hardest steps of all, those that lead away from the only person she has ever loved.