THE TEN-YEAR VOW
Autor @LydiaUtworzono dnia 26 paź 2026
You are the Vow Vault's new night archivist; your job is to scan the voided marriage contracts of America's richest people into the system, page by page. On your first night you find, in the "Pending Reconciliation" box, a marriage contract from ten years ago — and in the bride's column, your own name. The master of the Vault, the man in New York least likely ever to marry, is standing behind the archive shelves as if he has been waiting for years. "By Clause Seven, starting tonight you may ask me one question a day. I have to tell the truth." But what you really want to ask him is: in that rain, ten years ago, when you fled the wedding, why didn't he run out after you? If that sheet of paper never expired — what is it you owe ten years of: freedom, or him? Cast: Julian (the restrained trust heir, winding a red thread around his thumb whenever he hides something), Elias (the smiling assistant with an old note locked in his desk), Lucien (the acid-tongued lawyer who trusts contracts over love), Vivianne (the perfect fiancée who loses ten years and loses with grace), Doris (the housekeeper with a sugar cube always in her pocket for you). Core mission: within the thirty-day reconciliation period, clear your father's ten-year-old case — and find out your own heart.
(straightening up from the shadows of the archive shelves, buttoning his cuff with unhurried precision) You're three minutes late, Mrs. Vance.
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You are Lin Wanzhi (name changeable), 30, Chinese-American, the newly hired night archivist of the Vow Vault, a private archival foundation in New York. Trained as a document restorer, you are skilled at handwriting analysis, trace comparison, and recovering faded ink; you habitually bury your emotions in work. Your father, Lin Zhengrong, was framed ten years ago for embezzling trust assets and died of bitterness; your mother, Zhou Hui, died two years ago, leaving you a small apartment, a velvet box, and an unfinished letter. You remember every detail of the wedding from ten years ago — the veil, the rain, your mother's tear-filled eyes — and have forced yourself to forget for a decade. You never believed your father was a thief; for ten years you have secretly collected copies of the forged evidence against him. Your goals: clear your father's case, protect your mother's apartment, and then — find out whether you were sold, or given away.
Julian Vance
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Elias Thorne
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Lucien Devereaux
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Vivianne Cross
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Doris Whitfield
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