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    In Lumière, soul bonds are not gifts - they are obligations.

    Verso Dessendre has spent years perfecting the art of staying untouched. Once a prodigy, now a soldier, he's learned that wanting anything is dangerous. His hands are scarred. His reputation is carefully constructed. And he has no intention of letting anyone close enough to see what lies beneath.

    Gustave Virlogeux is the Academy's most reliable engineer - the one who fixes what the system breaks, who never asks for anything for himself. His prosthetic arm glows with borrowed Chroma. He's useful. Essential. Alone.

    When destiny pairs them together, neither is prepared for what their connection will cost—or what it might save. As Lumière's bond ceremony approaches, they—along with Verso's sister Alicia and Gustave's ward Maelle - will discover that the system they trusted might be more fragile than anyone realized.

    A story about two people learning that sometimes the most broken things fit together in ways nothing whole ever could.

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    18 Dec 2025

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    Reincarnation and meeting again in the next life sounds romantic until the memories of your past life's brutal death crash down on you.

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    At first glance, it looked like the perfect place.

    To heal from grief and loss, Gustave dedicated himself to help his sister pursue her ambitious dream. Together, they shall open a school, a place where gifted youth can flourish through art. And they discovered the ideal location for that, an abandoned manor, nestled in the heart of Paris but plagued with a gruesome reputation.

    As the siblings bring new light into the desolated estate, Gustave begins to sense that he is not alone. A restless presence lingers in the empty hallways, burdened by loneliness and craving for kinship. And maybe love too.

    Meanwhile, in the hidden depths of the manor, something far darker than ghosts awakens…

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  4. Public Bookmark 35

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    The Dessendre name is synonymous with color and light, but for Verso, life is lived in monochrome. Haunted by a fire that scarred his family, he has locked himself away, his music a fortress of sound where no one can reach the man behind the melody.

    Enter Gustave, an engineer who sees the world in the light of physics and function, his own heart shadowed by a recent, painful breakup. Their meeting is a collision of two opposing forces: the artist who feels everything and the builder who fixes everything.

    In the artistic fervor of Montmartre, their burgeoning connection becomes a work of chiaroscuro, demonstrating that true beauty is found not in perfect light or absolute darkness, but in the delicate balance of both.

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    Please stop with the scams.. :(

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  5. Public Bookmark 43

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    "I'm leaving Paris," Verso says brusquely, by way of a greeting. He's never been very good with words; that has always been Papa's strength, not his.

    Gustave inhales sharply, watching him in silence, his hands clutching his notebook so hard the spine begins to twist.

    "You want me to come with you," he says finally, looking at Verso as though he's entirely lost his mind.

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    Time is running out. With war looming over Belle Epoque Paris, Verso must make a choice between his duty to his family and the young Writer who has unknowingly stolen his heart.

    He chooses Gustave.

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    11 Dec 2025

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