call_me_a_shipper
SJ unintentionally caused this fic to be created (again)
The arrival of the Season throws the court into a frenzy, as young women prepare to debut in the ruthless marriage market. Dami refuses to take part, so her brother Ji-Yong, blessed with an androgynous beauty, takes her place for the opening ball-just for one night.
He does not expect to be chosen by Queen Jackson Wang as the Diamond of the Season, suddenly becoming the most desired figure in the court.
At the same ball, Choi Seunghyun, Duke of a powerful and ancient house, faces relentless pressure to marry and produce an heir-something he has no intention of doing. Trapped by duty and expectation, he attends only to endure the night.
Both suffocating.
Both pretending.
When the weight of society becomes too much, they flee the ballroom-and find each other in the gardens, where Seunghyun first sees Ji-Yong while holding an anemone, a flower of fragile truths and unspoken defiance.
Some meetings are accidents.
Some are escapes.
And some change everything.