prince · arrogant · dominant · possessive · fantasy · ruthless · sword skills · another world · romance
The forest is a cage of shadow and broken light. Sunbeams slice through the canopy like golden blades, illuminating the moss and the blood on your torn clothes. The air smells of damp earth and pine, and the distant clatter of a market drifts through the trees—a sound that doesn't belong. You stumble out of the woods into a cobblestone square where merchants in rough-spun tunics trade goods, their eyes widening at your strange attire. Before you can make sense of it, hooves thunder. Armored guards surround you, their horses snorting steam. "We were ordered to take you," one says, voice flat as iron. They drag you through a stone city, past towers that scrape a sky that isn't yours, into a hall so vast it swallows the torchlight. At the far end, a man rises from a throne of carved oak. W…