Tonight, the moonlight scattered a silvery-white glow across the ground.

The night breeze stirred, casting shadows that swayed outside the window.

Asher lowered his eyelashes, holding a cross in his hand as he stood devotedly before the altar, praying.

Since his lover's passing, he has performed this ritual daily, seeking self-redemption and repenting for his sins.

Countless times, he did it all for himself.

But now, as he stood once again before the altar, he could no longer see his own heart clearly.

Confusion and a sense of helplessness engulfed him.

With a long sigh, Asher turned around.

Just then, the church's grand doors burst open.

The next moment, a slender, graceful figure with fox-like eyes shimmering with mist stepped in, breaking through the desolate twilight and crashing into his gaze.

"Ash..."

Arnold stood alone in the hallway as the cold wind pierced his thin frame. Tears welled up in his narrow eyes. "You came all the way here to look for me... Why didn't you wait a little longer? Would it have killed you to wait a bit longer?"

Asher's heart jolted.

He froze. An unbearable emotion started burning fiercely in his bloodshot eyes.

"You idiot... Do you know how hard I've been searching for you?"

dared not go to the KS Group's building to see you. I didn't dare go to Yara Park to see you... I didn't dare to contact anyone from your family or my aunt... I was afraid of causing you trouble. I

came out as a choked whisper. "But... I was even more afraid of never seeing

said the word "afraid" in

who arrived from Meridan back then.

now, what had reduced him to

it Asher's own ambivalence, his wavering indecision, and the cruelty that had extinguished

at Arnold's tear-soaked face, his heart aching as if it had been

at your back from afar the last time I saw you standing under my window, I was so scared that

draining all his tears. "But how could that be... I want to be with you.

"Dr. Larson."

don't say such things

staggered forward a

his fingers

to you? If there's retribution, then bring it on! If the sky falls, I'll hold it

his eyes and collapsed to the

he did not feel

he felt the warm embrace of a man radiating

was the embrace he had searched for a

Asher's hand around his

have a fever?!" he exclaimed, his large hands covering Arnold's sweat-drenched forehead, finding it alarmingly

"Seeing you makes everything better..." Asher gritted his teeth. "Stop fooling around! You have a high fever. You need to go to

and brother must

now. Once I step foot

under the Thompsons, they'lb

hold

clutched the man's shirt, shaking his head vigorously. "Some fever

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