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In a city where every piece of art hides a secret, one man's devotion could become his undoing.
Corey Liu, known to his closest friends and clients as Si Yu, is a gifted art conservator with a quiet obsession - restoring paintings that others have long given up on. His life is precise, contained, and predictable... until a mysterious client walks through his studio door.
Adrian Vale is a private investigator searching for a stolen portrait - one rumored to carry a curse, and a legacy of disappearances spanning over a decade. The moment he meets Corey, something shifts. The painting he's after isn't just a clue to a crime... it's a mirror to something darker, something alive.
Drawn together by curiosity and a growing desire, Corey and Adrian find themselves caught in a web of secrets that ties them both to the same forgotten past. The deeper Adrian digs, the more he realizes Corey knows more than he should - and the line between love and deception begins to blur.
In a world painted with half-truths, faded brushstrokes, and haunting beauty, devotion becomes a chain - and love, the sharpest blade of all.