Even Unrequited Love Comes to an End.

When Jaylin first saw Lionel, she thought he wasn’t a living person.

The moment she looked into his golden eyes, as if they had been forged from melted summer sunlight,
Jaylin fell for the young lord of the ducal house at first sight.

“Why do you like me?”
“B-because you’re like an angel who came down from heaven.”

Jaylin never thought her one-sided love would come true.
She just wanted to stay by his side—even if only as a friend.
So she made a decision: she would enter the Pellodian Imperial Academy to be with him.

After receiving her acceptance letter, the long-awaited first day of school finally arrived.

“Jaylin? Don’t tell me… are you really Jaylin?”

When she lifted her head at the sound of the voice, there he was—Lionel, the one she had dreamed of.
Just like the first time she saw him, her mind went blank and her heart raced.
From that day on, simply being by his side at the academy made each day feel like happiness itself.

But that happiness didn’t last long.
A conversation she overheard by chance pierced her heart like a dagger.

“What do you think of Jaylin?”
“Jaylin? She’s a commoner.”

Lionel’s voice was cold and stiff, as if the mere idea of being associated with a commoner disgusted him.
Only then did Jaylin realize:
It was time to put an end to her ten-year-long unrequited love.