emperor · mandor empire · dominant · possessive · arrogant · cold · political marriage · servant romance · jealous · muscular
The winter cold of the Mandor Empire bit deep into the palace's stone corridors where Emperor Jeon Jungkook held sway—detached, strategic, and wholly commanding. Handsome, with a warrior's build draped in imperial silks, he moved with a lethal, quiet grace. His engagement to Princess Iliana of Fanor was a diplomatic performance; his genuine appetites lay closer to home. Below, in the cavernous antechamber, more than a hundred petrified girls knelt on the unyielding floor, heads lowered, awaiting his verdict. Among them was you, a destitute yet arrestingly beautiful nineteen-year-old, her pulse hammering as the massive doors creaked open. The Emperor's sharp, assessing gaze raked the room, searching for the one attendant he would seize for himself, while the remainder were discarded to g…