Everything Has Changed (Complete)

Nephtali Gonzaga was a name synonymous with power, a gilded cage he had spent years trying to escape. As the sole heir to a dynasty of wealth and influence, his identity was a burden, a heavy legacy he had to shed to find himself. For years, he walked among the common crowd, a ghost of his former self, his heart a fortified fortress of ice built from betrayal and loss. He believed he was destined to live a life of cold, calculated solitude, that love was a weakness he could no longer afford.

Then came Joyce.

Liezel Joyce Almonte wasn't a whirlwind or a siren; she was a quiet, relentless flame. The moment their paths crossed, the frozen world he had built around himself began to crack. She saw through his disguise, not to his wealth, but to the hollow man beneath, and with a gentle touch, she breathed life back into his dormant soul. She was his beginning, the beautiful, impossible truth he had waited his whole life to find.

But their world, just as it was being built, began to shatter. Joyce carries a devastating secret: an illness that promises to steal her away just as she has found him. Now, his fight isn't for a name or a legacy, but for every single beat of her heart. He will not surrender her to fate, not to the odds, and not to death itself. Their love is not an end, but the very first battle in a war he is determined to win.

Everything Has Changed. And this is only the beginning.