When secret midnight meetings between a future queen and a court musician blossom into something neither of them can deny, they are forced to choose between duty and desire. ...sometimes, the most magical kingdoms are the ones you leave behind...

A marriage stretched thin by familiarity, where love refuses to fade but cannot stay, and letting go becomes the only act of care left.

Paris was never meant to change anything for Ling. It was supposed to be a pause-a quiet breath away from Bangkok's expectations, a life she didn't choose but kept living anyway. On her vacation, she meets Orm. A Thai photographer who left home years ago, Orm captures the city's light and strangers, never expecting to notice someone like Ling, someone carrying a life too heavy for her own shoulders. Two strangers. A city that keeps making them cross paths. Warm pastries, quiet train rides, and conversations that unravel more truth than either planned to give. Ling finds freedom in Orm. Orm finds belonging she thought she'd lost. But Paris is temporary. Vacations end. Homes pull you back. And love, if that's what this is, doesn't ask nicely. Will they choose to let each other go... or finally choose each other?

Orm stumbles upon a quiet café and is immediately drawn to Ling, the gentle owner whose presence feels both new and familiar. Between soft music, warm coffee, and quiet afternoons, something stirs in her heart that she cannot explain. -SHORT STORY-

"Love me while I'm still breathing." Orm Kaede has spent most of her life inside the white walls of Room 308, her body failing her little by little to a rare illness no one knows how to cure. She laughs anyway, at the tubes, at the silence, at the way hope keeps sneaking back even when it shouldn't. Dr. Ling Vienne, thirty-two, is the hospital's calmest storm, a palliative care physician who's learned never to get attached. Her hands heal what they can, her heart stays out of reach. When Ling becomes Orm's attending doctor, humor meets restraint, warmth meets distance and somewhere between IV lines and midnight checkups, something forbidden begins to bloom. A story about love that arrives too late, laughter that hides fear, and the impossible wish of a girl who just wanted to be loved before she couldn't breathe anymore. Disclaimer: This story contains heavy angst and emotionally intense themes.