Archive of Our Own

Summary:

From the moment he had first encountered the elusive man, Renjun had always thought of Lee Jeno like that of a Rose. There was more than met the eye. Just like the flower itself, behind his hardened exterior, the thorns, there lay a fragile individual, a truly beautiful soul with vibrancy and compassion, a complex secret Renjun was determined to uncover.

In which Huang Renjun takes up a position as the new housekeeper of the Lee estate to escape his cruel past and build a new life for himself. Met with a ruined castle on an almost abandoned hilltop, Renjun begins to wonder what exactly he would encounter on the other side. He was however, unaware that its inhabitant would be that of a mere young man by the name of Lee Jeno, tragically shadowed by the physical remains of his fateful past. Can the ignition of their colliding worlds bring them out of their darknesses and into their own state of blissful healing? {Beauty and the Beast inspired}