She rejected his love, mocking his humble profession and his shy nature. However, she told him: “If you truly love me, prove it. Make me a glass flower so perfect, so alive, that it looks like a real rose. If you succeed, I will be yours.”

In a small town, there lived a skilled glassmaker known for creating beautiful, delicate glassware. He was a lonely, quiet man who poured all his passion into his craft. One day, he fell deeply in love with a beautiful but proud and cold woman from the town.

The glassmaker said nothing. He returned to his workshop, heartbroken. The next morning, the townspeople found him dead, lying on his workbench. Around him were countless beautiful glass objects – but on his chest, he had placed one last piece: a of the rose, shaped into a human heart , cracked in two.

He brought the rose to the woman. She was stunned by its beauty but, being cruel-hearted, she took the rose and deliberately dropped it on the floor. The glass flower . She laughed and said, “Your love is as fragile as your glass.”