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After Lian came out of the bathroom, she stood in front of the mirror for a few moments.She wasn't just looking at her reflection.She was trying to find the girl who used to laugh without fear and paint without wondering whether anyone would like her work.She got dressed quietly, then sat beside the window.Her room was beautiful.Everything was carefully arranged.The expensive furniture.The long curtains.The paintings hanging on the walls.Yet somehow, none of that beauty could make the room feel warm.There was a cold that didn't come from outside.A cold that lived inside her.She didn't know how to explain it.She wasn't angry.And she wasn't simply sad.It was something deeper.As if a part of her had remained somewhere far away, waiting for someone to notice her.She picked up a book beside her and tried to read, bu

There was nothing between Adam and Lian except a small screen. No home that brought them together. No chance encounter on a street. No face-to-face conversation. And yet, their few words had begun to create something neither of them fully understood. It was strange to feel close to someone you had never even sat across from. But sometimes, souls did not need to share the same place to understand each other. Every morning, Lian woke up thinking about Adam's question: “And you, Lian... have you found your way?” It wasn't an ordinary question to her. It felt like a door opened by someone she barely knew. A door leading toward a part of herself she had neglected for too long. Adam, meanwhile, found himself waiting for her replies as well. He wasn't waiting for her love. Nor was he

Weeks before that day, nothing in the city was talked about more than the wedding.It was more than the marriage of two young people from wealthy families. It was an event the city’s entire elite had been waiting for. Local newspapers dedicated entire sections to it, while social media was flooded with pictures of the mansion where the ceremony would take place. People competed to uncover every little detail.Some claimed the flowers alone had cost enough to buy dozens of homes.Others said the chef hired for the occasion had cooked for kings and heads of state.Every evening, children gathered outside the mansion’s towering walls, imagining what lay beyond its enormous iron gates.And on the morning of the wedding...the mansion became a hive of activity.Servants lined the corridors in elegant black uniforms and white gloves.Crystal chandeliers hung from the high ceilings, scattering thousands of lights until