Once, Grayson Evans renounced the world. Now he wakes inside the body of a forgotten studio boy in Evershade’s glittering lights—an actor named Aiden Vale, beloved for his fragile beauty and used as a “stand-in” by powerful patrons. He remembers every sermon from his old life: detachment, compassion, the quiet punch of truth. But Evershade is not merely a city of glass and neon. Magic hums under the subway grates; reputations are traded like stock; and an oligarch—Conway Rossi—keeps Grayson on a leash as a prized possession. A returning superstar, Ravi Bianchi, drives the wedge; a predator producer is exposed; a viral video crowns a mysterious “monk-in-the-streets” hero. Grayson’s calm becomes scandal, then myth. Conway wants possession. Grayson seeks freedom and quiet. Between tabloids, staged favors, and real danger, something warmer than charity grows—an uninvited, stubborn affection from the man who thought him disposable. Fast-paced, atmospheric, and wryly spiritual, Lotus & Velvet is a fantasy-tinged BL about a man who learned to be free and the billionaire who must learn to let go.

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