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At the insistence of his overbearing older brother, Tomoe agrees to a meeting he never wanted-a blind date meant to serve politics rather than the heart. He expects obligation, cold formality, and disappointment. Instead, he meets Luna: a woman who arrives late, breathless from caring for her three-year-old daughter, carrying exhaustion, quiet strength, and a past she never chose. Beneath lantern light at the Red Lotus Pavilion, two guarded lives collide-not through grand romance, but through patience, understanding, and the fragile beginnings of trust. What starts as reluctant compliance becomes something neither of them anticipated: a moment of connection that asks not for devotion, but for choice.