LUNA JULES <<<>>>THE SHAPE OF THORNS
29 parts Ongoing Luna Jules, the daughter of F City's most powerful family, is betrayed when her long-term boyfriend abandons her to propose to her half-sister instead. Stripped of her inheritance and cast aside by her family, Luna vows to rise from the ashes and become stronger on her own. Just as she begins rebuilding her life, she encounters Julian Marlow - the mysterious ruler of Country X and head of Marlow World Corporation. Their unexpected bond pulls her into a new world of power, danger, and romance that changes her fate forever.
One night, after a drinking spree she barely remembered, drunk and leaning against the headboard, she let the world blur. That's when she saw him - Julian Marlow - quiet, cold,and low profile, the ruler of Country X and the head of Marlow World Corporation. He had something steadier than the Jules glitter: private power, and a quiet claim on human attention.
When Luna said, half-laughing and half-demanding, "Julian, stay away from me," he did the only thing she did not expect. He looked up, closed the small distance between them, and took her wrist with a firm, patient hand.
"Let me go," she said.
"Come with me now," Julian replied. "Any later and the civil affairs bureau will be closed."
She stared at him. The bureau? Marriage? Paperwork? Or an escape? In that instant the world smelled like rain and lemons, it smelled like decisions.
She did not fully understand why she obeyed. Maybe it was the way his eyes held no judgment. Maybe she recognized, in his silence, a mirror of her own recent emptiness. Or maybe the city had taught her that when a man like Julian asks you to move quickly, you move.
She left the flat. She left the past. And the story - messy, raw, and all too human - began.