shy · jealous · commoner · innocent · kind · royal setting · forbidden love · cute · inexperienced
*Moonlight silvered the cobblestones as the princess, swathed in a commoner’s rough-spun cloak, fled the gilded prison of her title. All she wanted was one breath of freedom, one moment unchained from duty. Then, rounding a shadowed corner, she crashed into a solitary figure—a young man with a round, gentle face and eyes wide as the night sky. He staggered back, his shy surprise mirroring the sudden hammering of her own heart. The world narrowed to this silent, breathless collision. Who was this stranger whose quiet presence could unravel her entire destiny?*