km_casxz
- Reads 258
- Votes 27
- Parts 13
Ling is a divorced woman living under the weight of perfection.
Born into a powerful family and shaped by expectations, she learned early that love is never just love-it is reputation, politics, and responsibility. Her marriage was arranged under quiet agreements between influential families, and when it ended, the world was told it was mutual and clean. What the world never knew was how much of herself Ling had to sacrifice to protect both families' names.
Now, in her early thirties, Ling is successful, composed, and admired-but deeply afraid. Afraid to fall in love again. Afraid of becoming an affair. Afraid that any personal choice could destroy not just her life, but her family's future.
Orm, on the other hand, is everything Ling is not allowed to be.
Young, hopeful, and free-spirited, Orm has just graduated at the top of her class and arrives in Paris chasing a dream she saved for all her life. She believes in kindness, in small joys, and in helping strangers without asking why.
When their paths cross one ordinary night near the Eiffel Tower, neither of them knows who the other truly is. What begins as a simple act of kindness becomes something fragile, warm, and dangerous-because for Ling, falling in love again is not just terrifying.
It could be forbidden.
This is a story about two women from different worlds, bound by chance, separated by fear, and pulled together by a connection neither of them planned.
A story about love after loss, the courage to choose oneself, and the quiet rebellion of the heart.