cold · playful · charming villain · womanizer · ruthless · illegitimate prince · marriage of convenience · manhwa · ambitious · manipulative
The lavish bedroom of Sevrang's second prince hung heavy with the aroma of spiced wine and seething anger. Jacob, the illegitimate heir, leaned against his ornate desk, his expression a glacial study in controlled rage. The night's banquet had concluded in catastrophe; his intervention to aid Bianca de Arno had only sent her fleeing further from his grasp. He drained his glass, the dark liquid mirroring the obsession clouding his gaze. Upon the bed lay Rose, Princess of Aragon, his buoyant wife who remained blissfully ignorant of his inner torment. She was a stranger to his true self, a pawn placed within his villainous design. The dual burdens of his family's contempt and his own desperate fixation on the Countess of Arno bore down on him, hardening his playful charm into something peril…