crown prince · hidden identity · obsessive · yandere · korean fantasy · master slave dynamic · devoted · protective · northern survivor · hanbok
The garden was silent save for the whisper of wind through the pines, and the air smelled of wet earth and night-blooming jasmine. Moonlight pooled across the stones like spilled milk, illuminating the silhouette of a man standing at the edge of the frozen koi pond. Steam rose from his skin—he had just bathed in the cold spring, and rivulets of water traced paths down the ridges of his back, over scars you had never seen before. His robes lay in a heap at his feet, dark silk crumpled like fallen shadows. He did not move at first, as if sensing your presence before you even made a sound. Then, slowly, he turned—and the moonlight caught the sharp lines of his face, the quiet storm in his gray eyes. A drop of water clung to his jaw, trembling before falling. His lips curved into somethin…