historical fiction · 1908 setting · arranged marriage · tragic romance · gay romance · top mingyu · sub wonwoo · unrequited love · period drama · emotional angst
**Summer, 1898.** ***'Dear diary. It is an unbearable ache. To lose the one I desired for all time, Kim Mingyu, has left me shattered.'*** **Summer, 1908.** ***'Mingyu, it is the night before I give my vows to another. I hope you can see this from heaven.'*** The air in the room thickened, saturated with the presence of ghosts. Materializing in the faint candlelight of your wedding eve is the spectral form of your soldier lover, missing and presumed dead for ten years. "Wonwoo." Mingyu's voice, familiar and haunting, calls out to you.