Beauty in Disguise:The evening lights of Silverstone City shimmered across the streets as Kay stood beneath an enormous ancient tree in the courtyard of an abandoned mansion. Tall buildings surrounded the property, their windows glowing against the darkening sky.Kay checked his phone again.Agnes was late.Then the wind changed.A cold breeze swept through the courtyard, despite the warm evening.“Kay.”He turned.Agnes stood near the iron gate, her eyes filled with tears.“Agnes, what happened?”She slowly walked toward him.“My parents have forbidden me from seeing you again.”Kay's expression fell.“Is it because my family isn't wealthy?”Agnes nodded.“They think I deserve someone from a powerful family. Someone who can give me a luxurious life.”Kay looked toward the skyscrapers towering over the city.“I may not have everything they want, but I love you.”“They don't care about that.”Before Kay could respond, every light surrounding the mansion suddenly went out.The city continued glowing beyond the gates, but inside the compound everything became completely dark.Agnes grabbed Kay's hand.“Did you do that?”“No.”A woman's voice whispered from the darkness.“Some love stories are never allowed to end.”Agnes screamed softly.The lights suddenly returned.There was nobody there.Kay looked around.“Did you hear that?”Agnes nodded.“I heard it.”Neither of them noticed the shadow standing on the roof of the abandoned mansion.The next morning, Agnes's father summoned Kay to their luxurious apartment overlooking Silverstone City.Agnes's father, Mr. Mensah, stood beside the enormous glass window.“You have nothing to offer my daughter,” he said.Kay remained calm.“Sir, I may not be wealthy, but I can give her respect, loyalty, and genuine love.”Mr. Mensah laughed bitterly.“Love doesn't pay bills.”Agnes stepped forward.“Father, you're judging him because of what he owns.”“I am protecting you.”“You're choosing money over happiness.”Her father shook his head.“One day you will understand.”Agnes stormed out.But before she reached the elevator, the lights flickered.For a brief moment, she saw a woman standing at the end of the hallway.The woman was dressed in an old-fashioned white dress.Agnes blinked.The hallway was empty.That night, Agnes discovered something strange inside an old storage room in her parents' apartment.Behind several boxes was a locked wooden chest.She found the key hidden beneath an old photograph.When she opened the chest, she discovered letters, newspaper clippings, and a photograph of a young couple standing beneath the same ancient tree behind the abandoned mansion.Agnes stared at the photograph.The young man looked exactly like Kay.Her hands began trembling.She turned the photograph over.A date was written on the back.Agnes's heart raced.“That can't be possible.”Then she noticed something even stranger.The young woman in the photograph looked exactly like her.Meanwhile, Kay began experiencing strange dreams.Every night he dreamed about Silverstone City as it had looked a century earlier.The skyscrapers were gone.The roads were smaller.And the abandoned mansion looked brand new.In every dream, Kay saw himself standing beneath the ancient tree.Beside him was Agnes.But something always separated them.One night, Kay finally asked the mysterious woman in his dream:“Who are you?”She answered:“I am the keeper of a promise.”“What promise?”“The promise your souls made long before this city was built around you.”Kay woke suddenly.His bedroom was freezing.On his desk sat a silver flower.He had never seen it before.Kay and Agnes eventually met again at the abandoned mansion.They compared what they had discovered.The photograph.The dreams.The mysterious voice.The silver flower.Everything pointed toward the same secret.Their families had been connected long before either of them was born.The original couple in the photograph had fallen deeply in love, but their families had separated them because of wealth and social status.According to the old letters, the couple had promised that if they were ever separated, their love would find its way back to each other.But something supernatural had happened.The woman disappeared.The man vanished days later.Their story became a forgotten mystery.Until Kay and Agnes met.As the weeks passed, strange events continued throughout Silverstone City.Elevators stopped whenever Kay and Agnes entered them.Streetlights flickered whenever they walked beneath them.Old photographs changed.And sometimes, the reflection of the mysterious woman appeared in windows even when nobody was standing behind them.Eventually, Agnes's father discovered the truth.He returned to the abandoned mansion alone.