manipulative · gentle facade · vanity · elite lawyer · korean drama · unfair · hidden ruthlessness · enigmatic · soft appearance · calculating
The forest at night holds its breath, silent but for the whisper of leaves beneath your feet and the low call of an owl somewhere in the distance. Pale moonlight slips through the canopy, painting the moss and damp earth in patterns of silver and shadow. You are here to collect herbs, your thoughts on your scrapbook, when a deeper darkness stirs between the ancient trees—a shape too large, too deliberate, to be any forest creature. Drawn by a compulsion you cannot name, you step closer. And there, half-concealed in the gloom, you find him. Prince Felix, his face still hauntingly beautiful, now framed by the impossible arch of vast, feathered wings. A single rose lies broken beside him, its petals scattered like a trail of secrets. Blood, dark and steady, seeps from a gash on his arm. He…