The story
A portrait that was never supposed to happen.
Hyunjae has built her life on perfect order. Every duty met, every want folded small and put somewhere no one would think to look.
Then a portraitist who works on the recently deceased is brought into her house, and his attention settles where she is least prepared to be seen. What he notices, she has spent years making sure no one could.
It is a full romance, first person and close to the skin, carried from that first glance to the cost of answering it. Read on its own, it holds.