Love is a strong force, maybe even the strongest, but it is also the parent of jealousy and hate, dangerous forces on their own, lethal when combined.

Politicians have overthrown the democracy and in this world, they reign. They set the guidelines, they punish, they reward. They control. They are the rulers. They have clouded people's minds, vanquished their hopes, their dreams, the light. The world has turned dark and Kang Daesung is about to learn just how dark it truly is.

The spell, the fixation, cannot be broken. Their time is running out.

A war forces one of them to leave. The other stays behind and waits for their return.

Junmyeon finds himself reluctantly in the protection of the assassin who murdered his father.

Even in the darkness that is their world, their love is eternal.

“For the winter fest,” Jongdae says, “I am going to propose to him.” “Jongdae,” says Minseok, in that ever-patient tone that he seems to reserve specifically for him, “you two are already married.”

Spring and Winter have always been wary of each other, but as part of a court recognised for its exceptional healers, Yixing could not stand idly by while the council debated a fellow man’s cry for help. Even if said man is the notorious Ice Monarch.