Yve was four when her future was signed away in a Beijing garden. A deal between families. A promise she never made.

She didn't know the boy with grey eyes who drew maps in the frozen sand. She didn't know his mother's name. But she knew the weight of a contract written without her permission.

Years later, she still doesn't know him.

But they've been bound to each other since that toxic winter night.

And neither of them had a say.