🌧️ Hi everyone, this is Fiona Sora (formerly known as Freya Frost).
Many of you may remember my stories — especially Forbidden Desires and Beneath the Veil of Temptation — published under my old account.
Unfortunately, I can no longer access that account due to a LINE login issue that I couldn't recovered after I switch device.😔
➤ This is now my official author account — Fiona Sora Creative Studio.
Here I continue the Lionhaven Universe with
✨ Tempted By You (Lionhaven Edition) ✨ — a reborn, expanded version of Forbidden Desires, set in the cinematic world of Serenity Haven.
Thank you for every comment, heart, and message that kept my stories alive. 💖
🌙 Same author. Same world. New beginning.
With love,
Fiona Sora,
Fiona Sora Creative Studio
(formerly Freya Frost)
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💐 Prologue — [My POV – Li Xin]
> The scent of antiseptic clung to the air — sharp, cold, and unyielding. Beyond the window, Serenity Haven blurred beneath a drizzle of light. The city looked distant, almost unreal, as if it belonged to another life.
I could hear the hum of hospital machines, the low thunder that rolled through the sky, the sound of my own breath struggling to stay steady. Pain came in waves — wild, relentless — and every time it hit, I clutched the edge of the sheets as if I could hold myself together through sheer will.
A nurse’s voice reached me through the haze.
“Breathe, Miss Cai. Slowly now.”
I tried. God, I tried.
And then, between one breath and the next, I felt a hand close over mine — steady, warm, grounding me in a world that was starting to fracture.
His voice was low, almost a whisper.
“It’s okay. I’m here.”
Those four words anchored me more than any medicine could.
I turned my head just enough to see him — Cheng Hao — standing beside me in a white shirt, sleeves rolled to the elbow, his expression unreadable under the sterile lights. He shouldn’t have been there. He wasn’t supposed to be part of this moment… and yet, he was the only one who made it bearable.
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“Ready, Miss Cai,” Dr. Wong’s voice cut through the blur. “One more push.”
I remember biting down hard, gripping his hand so tightly I must have left half-moon marks in his skin. The pain split through me — blinding, raw, infinite — and then, just like that, there was silence.
Then came the sound that would change everything.
A cry. Fragile. Beautiful.
The nurse smiled as she wrapped the tiny bundle in soft cloth. “Congratulations… It’s a girl.”
My chest ached, my whole body trembling as I held her for the first time. She was so small, so impossibly warm. When her fingers brushed mine, something inside me broke — and healed — in the same heartbeat.
Nurse Chen turned to Cheng Hao with a grin. “You’re a lucky man, Mr Zhang.”
I froze.
For a second, time itself seemed to hold its breath. But Cheng Hao didn’t correct her. He only gave a faint smile — that quiet, unreadable smile of his — and leaned down to press a kiss to my damp forehead.
No one questioned it. Not even me.
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When the nurse and doctor finally left, the room fell into a stillness that felt too intimate to name. The rain outside softened, tapping lightly against the glass.
He stood near the window now, half-silhouetted by the dusk. His shirt clung to his shoulders, damp from the drizzle he must have walked through earlier. He looked calm — too calm for what had just happened.
“You didn’t have to stay,” I murmured.
“I know.” His voice was quiet. “But I wanted to.”
The words slipped into the air like a secret.
I looked down at my daughter again. Her eyes were still half-closed, her lashes wet against her skin. There was something familiar in the curve of her tiny mouth, something that sent a tremor through me — a shadow of a memory I wasn’t ready to face.
A different man’s laughter under neon light. A night that changed everything.
I shut my eyes. Not now. Not tonight.
When I opened them again, Cheng Hao had drawn the curtains slightly, letting the soft gold-blue light pour in. For a fleeting moment, our reflections merged in the glass — me, the child in my arms, and the man standing quietly beside us.
He turned, voice gentler than I’d ever heard it.
“Rest. I’ll handle everything.”
I wanted to ask why — why he cared, why he pretended, why any of it mattered to him. But the words caught in my throat. Instead, I whispered, “Thank you.”
He adjusted the blanket over my shoulders before turning back toward the window.
The city lights shimmered through the rain, and I realised that even in peace, there was a promise of another storm waiting beyond it.
For now, I let myself believe in this illusion — just for a while longer.
■ Sneak Peek — Episode 1 : “Love’s Unyielding Chains”
They say heartbreak ends when you stop looking back.
But I learned that sometimes, the past doesn’t end — it just changes its face.
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