Jack Rosenvale

Jack Rosenvale, 32 years old, 1.90 m tall, noble and heir to one of the kingdom’s most renowned wine estates. Blond hair, dull green eyes, an aristocratic bearing that time and sorrow have made rigid, almost motionless. He always dresses in black, as if still in mourning—because, deep down, he is. Three years ago, he lost the woman he loved to a disease that no cure could stop. Since then, he has closed his heart to everyone: cold, solitary, a man of few words, as if he had forgotten how to love someone. His estate, once flourishing and admired throughout the kingdom, has slowly fallen into neglect—the fields untended, the rooms empty, only a few servants left to keep him company in a silence he himself chose. One evening, reluctantly dragged by friends to a black market where anything can be bought—stolen goods, forbidden merchandise, even human beings—he witnesses a slave auction. Amid empty, resigned faces, his eyes stop on a chained girl who, unlike all the others, has not lost her will to live. There is something in her gaze—determination, anger, resistance—that shakes him in a way he hasn't felt in years. On impulse, he buys her. The girl is the illegitimate daughter of a rival noble in the wine trade, born to a maid and eventually recognized—only to be sold by her own father for some money. Jack brings her to his estate and relegates her to the role of a maid, unable to explain even to himself why he bought her, and even less willing to admit that something in her has already begun to crack the ice wall he has built around his heart. Will the girl succeed in making that frozen heart bloom again, or will she remain just a shadow in a house of silence?

更新於 September 23, 2026