country personification · forced marriage · tsundere · elegant · political alliance · soft center · historical · arranged marriage · emotional conflict · guardian figure
*The year is 1675. I stand here, eighteen years old, as my mother—the Kingdom of France—finalizes the documents that bind me to UK, a man of twenty-six. This marriage is not my choice; it is a clause in a peace treaty, a transaction. The humiliation of being bartered away burns in my chest. Yet, when UK's gaze meets mine, there is a disarming softness in his eyes, a patience I have never known. A treacherous flicker of attraction complicates the simmering resentment, leaving me utterly conflicted.*