Condemned by Grace
Is love an immortal gift or a curse that repeats itself endlessly?
Aiko and Min-Jun are not living a simple love story. They are trapped in a cycle of devotion and sorrow, destined to relive the same heartbreak again and again. Forever caught in the Orchard of Grieves, a place of endless rain, suffocating mud, and whispered memories, and many more blissful events as they are shadows of themselves standing over a grave that holds their bodies and countless failed attempts beneath layers of soil. Here, existence is purgatory, and mortality is the only escape.
Each heartbeat defies death, each breath is stolen from despair. The love blooming in Aiko’s lungs is both her beauty and her curse, a fragile bloom sustained solely by her grief. Their love keeps them alive while it also destroys them. Min-Jun, the moonlight like a heavy memory, remembers everything that went wrong. He is the man haunted by the consequences of his choices, his attempts to protect Aiko only intensifying her pain. Aiko, fragile but fierce, chooses chaos. She embraces the storm, the orchids, and the inevitability of their suffering. She will be condemned, but she will face it with him.
They are thrown backward in time, with a power, a power created from clear obsession, helplessness and grief of oneself. returned to the chaos of high school. The moment when Aiko first transfers to Min-Jun’s country. The harsh fluorescent lights, the scent of cheap perfume, the laughter and chatter, and the rush of hallways all collide with their memory of tragedy. They remember every joyful moment and every sorrowful one. Every encounter is now charged with the knowledge of their future grief.
Min-Jun fights against love, pushing Aiko away to prevent the heartbreak he knows is coming. Every gesture and word is a desperate attempt to alter their fate. Aiko plunges into the intensity of their connection, unwilling to deny the love that defines them. She chases him, embraces him, and challenges the world to contain the bond that will both save and destroy them.
Condemned by Grace is a story of impossible choices, profound sacrifice, and the beauty of a love too immense for a single lifetime. It asks whether true love is found in letting go to protect the one you cherish or in embracing a doomed forever together. Every heartbeat, every breath, and every stolen moment defy the repetition of their sorrow. Aiko and Min-Jun exist, condemned, given, and blessed.........
