When eighteen-year-old Kairo Ishida, cold, distant, and exhausted from pretending nothing hurts, is admitted to the Hanahaki Ward, he expects silence, white walls, and the slow ache of wilting petals.
What he doesn't expect is Noa Ren - sunshine in human form, an artist who sketches everything he feels but rarely says out loud.
Forced into the same room, the two boys settle into an uneasy routine: shared mornings, quiet nights, exchanged glances, and a growing collection of Noa's sketches tucked between their beds. And slowly... painfully... beautifully... Kairo begins to thaw.
In a world where unspoken love grows flowers in your lungs, two boys learn what it means to breathe freely, to trust again... and to hold on, even as the petals fall.
A soft BL story about healing, late-night confessions, and the love we're brave enough to choose.
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