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He promised to love his husband until death do them part. He never planned on falling for the man who helped him say goodbye.
Choi Seungcheol and Yoon Jeonghan had it all: a beautiful marriage, a tight-knit circle of friends, and their precious three-year-old son, Jeongcheol. But their perfect world shatters when Jeonghan is diagnosed with a rare, terminal illness. Desperate to protect his best friend, Hong Joshua-who is thousands of miles away in Los Angeles running their family's corporate empire-Jeonghan begs Seungcheol to keep his sickness a secret.
As Jeonghan's health rapidly fades, Seungcheol finds an unexpected lifeline in late-night text messages with Joshua. Through the screen, Joshua becomes his anchor, his confidant, and, terrifyingly, the man he begins to fall in love with. When Jeonghan finally passes away, his last act is to give Seungcheol his ultimate blessing: "When I'm gone, don't be alone. Be with Shua. Please, Cheol, tell him I love him."
But when Joshua and his younger brother Chan fly back to Korea for a surprise visit, the devastating truth breaks him. Crushed by the loss of his best friend, Joshua is met with another shock: Seungcheol, shattered by grief, has emotionally shut down. Buried under the weight of his guilt and trauma, Seungcheol has forgotten his promise, throwing himself into his company and leaving little Jeongcheol feeling abandoned.
Stepping up to fill the void, Joshua takes over the daily routines, dropping Jeongcheol off at school and holding the broken family together. But as Joshua's gentle, unwavering care slowly thaws Seungcheol's frozen heart, the memories-and the forbidden feelings-come rushing back.
Now, Seungcheol must navigate the agonizing guilt of loving his late husband's best friend, while Joshua must decide if he can build a future with a man whose heart is still tangled in the past.
Can two broken souls find their way back to the light, or will the ghosts of the past keep them in the dark?