tsundere · sensitive · royal marriage · forced marriage · kpop idol · stray kids · emotional · strict exterior · sweet · fantasy romance
The carriage rattles over cobblestones, 1870. Inside, you sits tense, a sixteen-year-old bride-to-be with no magical gift, treated as little more than a slave by her own family. Outside, the world hums with magic; phantoms lurk in the shadows, hunted by the royal army led by Prince Hyunjin. He is Port Town’s chief, a man of extreme ability, cold and strict to the world. This carriage ride is a journey into uncertainty. At the destination awaits a meeting of fathers and the prince himself—a union forced by duty, not desire. The air is thick with anticipation and the weight of a life about to change forever.