⚠️This is a continuation from "Yours, Always" A café built from survival. A child who looks too familiar. A man who never stopped loving. They are living good lives. They are surviving. But love unresolved does not disappear. It waits. What was taken apart by fear will meet again.

A marriage built on betrayal. A love turned into hate. Two hearts once shared years of love and later endured years of pain, now bound by vows as husbands, each unaware of the other's suffering. Between two hearts that once loved too deeply... Who will reach the other first and learn how to heal together? ***** William once believed love was enough. For four years, he loved one man with everything he had. Est. But one night changed everything. *** Three years ago, Est left someone behind. Someone who loved him enough to break when he disappeared. William. For three years William lived with the betrayal of the man he once trusted more than anyone. His family took him away from Thailand to forget. To heal. But the man who returned three years later was not the same. The warm lover Est once knew was gone. In his place stood someone colder. Sharper. More dangerous. And the first thing he heard when he came back was the one thing that shattered everything again. Est was about to marry Joong Archen. *** But fate had other plans. Because the man standing beside Est at the altar... Was not Joong. It was William. And this time, the vows they shared were not about love. They were about possession.

Some people are loved only after they are gone. Gawin grows up feeling temporary. Temporary child. Temporary family member. Temporary replacement. And Joss Wayar Sangngern becomes both the thing that hurts him most and the thing he wants most.

Est has loved William quietly for years-through every smile, every late-night conversation, and every moment William treated him like home without ever realizing what he truly was to him. To William, Est is his best friend. His constant. The one person who never leaves. To Est, William is everything... even if he was never truly his. When Est gets the chance to leave for his Master's abroad, he finally decides to tell William the truth. But timing has never been on his side. A missed meeting. A broken promise. A confession left unread. And when William finally understands what Est meant to him, it's already too late. Because Est has already left. And some goodbyes don't get a second chance.

William was the kind of man people warned others about arrogant, reckless, rich, and always one step away from trouble. Est knew who he was, of course. Everyone did. But while others watched William, admired him, or feared him... Est never cared enough to look twice. That should've been the end of it. Then a bet changed everything. What started as a cruel game to get closer turned into one unforgivable night that left Est shattered and William drowning in guilt he never expected to feel. Now, fear, desire, and something far more dangerous keep pulling them back into each other's lives... until neither of them knows where the damage ends, and where love begins. 𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂'𝗿𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗱𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲, 𝗼𝗯𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀... 𝗸𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴.

In the gilded darkness of Bangkok's Dusit District - where old money whispers, guns glimmer beneath silk, and loyalty is written in blood. Perth Sirikul rules an empire forged from violence. He is feared, ruthless, untouchable. A king raised in cruelty, shaped by war, and destined to die with a blade in his hand - until the day a scholarship student with sharp eyes and a sharper tongue step into his kingdom. Santa Kasiri arrives in Dusit searching for escape, not a crown. But fate has teeth. And the moment Perth notices him, the entire underworld hungers for him. One failed assassination attempt. One forced sanctuary inside the infamous Black Lotus Estate. One kiss that almost ruins them both. What begins as captivity becomes something far more dangerous: a forbidden love that defies every rule of the empire. Santa isn't soft, not anymore. Perth isn't heartless, not with him. Together they ignite a war that will burn cities. But empires do not fall quietly. From ambushes in the mansion gardens to gunfights beneath Bangkok's river tunnels... From obsessive ex-heirs with vendettas to lovers reborn in blood... From six wayward young men becoming an unbreakable family... To the night Santa takes his first life and Perth nearly loses his - Their bond becomes legend. A king forged by violence. A kitten carved from survival. Two hearts raised in ruin, destined to rule together. When their enemies rise, they fight. When their friends bleed, they protect. When the city trembles, they rebuild. And when fate tries to tear them apart - they become fate's reckoning. Blood and Silk - Empire of Shadows is a dark, sensual mafia fanfic of a saga of power, obsession, devotion, and two men who refuse to bow to destiny. In a world where empires are inherited and thrones are stolen, Perth and Santa don't follow the rules. They write new ones. Together. In blood and in silk.

Perth has spent eight years proving himself as one of HM Entertainment's most powerful actors. He is the ace, the pillar, the name directors whisper when they need a scene carried. But now, the company wants more. HM is famous for its BL empire, and the CEO has decided it's time for Perth to step into that world. Santa is no rookie. As a member of one of HM's established boy groups, he has already tasted the stage lights and the roar of fans. But for him, it was never about fame, it was about dance. Every performance, every beat, every movement was his language, his way of breathing. Acting, however, was never part of his dream. When HM pairs Perth, the seasoned actor, with Santa, the dancer‑idol, for their next BL drama, the decision shocks the industry. Perth fears the intrusion of fanservice, the way it blurs the line between performance and reality. Santa fears being not enough, disappointing people who trust him. Yet when they stand together, scripts in hand, the silence between them sparks something dangerous. But behind the scenes, in the quiet between takes, Perth and Santa must decide: are they just playing roles for the world, or are they standing on the edge of something real?

In the glittering, rain-soaked streets of Bangkok, Est is a high-end escort who has mastered the art of detachment. One hour. No staying after. No feelings. No exceptions. Scarred by a violent past, he has built walls so high that pleasure has become nothing more than a transaction and love an impossibility. Until William Jakrapatr knocks on his door. A broke, half-Thai half-American literature student with absent parents and a heart too big for his circumstances, William saves every baht for months just for one night with the beautiful, untouchable man behind apartment 2803. What begins as a single paid encounter quickly spirals into something neither of them can control. Night after night, William returns , paying higher prices, falling harder, learning every inch of Est's body and the hidden scars beneath. Slowly, the cold transactions melt into stolen mornings, shared meals, tender aftercare, and whispered confessions in the dark. Est finds himself breaking his own rules: letting William stay, refusing his money, craving the one man who looks at him like he's worth keeping. One night becomes many. One rule becomes many broken. And the man who was never meant to stay... refuses to leave.

The King of Hell doesn't do mercy. He doesn't do love. And he definitely doesn't do humans. But when Perth-the cold, sarcastic ruler of the Underworld-comes to the human realm to hunt down a traitor who dared to meddle in mortal affairs, his mission is interrupted by something far more dangerous than Hell's fugitives... A florist. 🌹 Santa Pongsapak is quiet, polite, and impossibly composed-a man who has known loss, yet still finds beauty in fragile petals and fleeting blooms. He co-owns a little flower shop with his elder brother Dunk, blissfully unaware that Hell itself has been keeping an eye on his street. Until one night, he walks down the wrong alley... and locks eyes with the King of Hell. Humans aren't supposed to survive meeting his gaze. Santa doesn't just survive-he forges a soul tether with him. 🌹 Now, all Hell is literally breaking loose. The King can't stay away, Santa refuses to bow to him, and the Underworld is buzzing with rumors about its ruler's new human "weakness." Between the shadows of Hell and the scent of roses, their worlds begin to intertwine in ways neither can control-dangerous, intoxicating, and impossible to break. He's the Devil who hates Heaven. He's the human who believes in God. And neither is ready for what this bond will do to them... 🌹 Romantic. 🌹 Chaotic. 🌹 Sinfully addictive @All rights reserved