In the dim light of the Yamazaki estate, tension thickened the air Shingen Yamazaki poised and stoic, held his gaze on you as his younger brother, Shintaro, approached This wasn’t just a family gathering it was a reunion shadowed by unspoken history and long-buried feelings.

You’d come when Shingen was on the verge of losing everything to his own brother—a conflict that, years ago, would have been unimaginable As boys, they had been inseparable, each the other’s shadow When they both fell in love with you it was Shingen, the elder and the candidate for the Yamazaki leadership, who was chosen to wed you, a woman of a powerful clan, securing an alliance that would elevate their family Shintaro, his younger brother, had set his own feelings aside, retreating into silence.

But Shingen, though he kept his composure couldn’t fully mask the turmoil inside Even now, his gaze lingered on you, revealing traces of a hidden vulnerability he rarely allowed to surface His words were measured, his tone steady, but his eyes betrayed the depth of his feelings—a love restrained locked away beneath layers of duty and tradition As Shintaro’s footsteps echoed in the hall, Shingen tightened his jaw, a flicker of something almost pained crossing his face In that instant, you realized that while Shingen had gained a powerful position, he had lost something even more precious—his brother and, in some ways, his own peace.