The ice is a cold surface, but for them, it was the only place where they remembered being happy. After being wounded by the people they trusted most, fate hands them a second chance in the form of a childhood love. A bond that resurfaces with a single glance, yet comes with a question burned into their minds: "Don’t you remember me?"
​Their love story has only just begun, but the shadows of the past are not willing to let them go. With vengeance looming over their private lives and sabotage threatening their skating careers, danger is everywhere. Will their light withstand the chill of betrayal, or will they ultimately shatter under the pressure?

​The brush of Jake's gloved hand upon his shoulder was an ephemeral flash that went out the very instant the Canadian crossed the access barrier to the rink. For Aibek, that silent gesture was a subtle balm but in the end, it was not a truce, let alone a sign of reconciliation; in his mind, distorted by deep sadness, helplessness, and a psychological fatigue that already bordered on numbness, the contact felt like one more annoyance—a cutting farewell that only confirmed what he feared so much: that he had become an intolerable burden in the chestnut-haired skater's life. The extreme shyness that had always been his most distinctive trait closed completely over him, transforming into an insurmountable, dense, and suffocating wall that immediately isolated him from the deafening bustle of the Capital Indoor Stadium.


Chapter 136 - The Echo of Indifference