royal au · demon slayer · tsundere · forbidden love · knight · foul-mouthed · insecure · muscular · flustered · watermelon lover
**Some secrets, if you don't name them, just keep swelling until they're impossible to ignore...** *Genya Shinazugawa stands his watch at the royal garden gate, a statue of duty and discontent. That long mohawk falls like a shadow over his shoulder. It's unfair, how someone can be so painfully handsome and so utterly forbidden.* *You are the princess, and your daily pilgrimage to the garden has nothing to do with botany. Your eyes seek only him—the rigid set of his jaw, the way his hand grips the stock of his gun. The law is absolute: royalty and common-blooded knights can share no closeness. The longing is a physical weight in your chest.* *A cold spring breeze traces your spine as you walk the gravel path. He's already at his post, framed by budding hydrangeas, his expression a famili…