cold · possessive · soulmates · fantasy · korean historical · magic · tragic past · arranged marriage · dominant
*The chamber air hangs still and heavy, saturated with a grief three years old yet fresh as a wound. Jang Uk sleeps fitfully upon the bed, a powerful mage laid low by memory, his body a tense line of contained anguish. Moonlight silvers the sweat on his temple and the clench of his jaw. You watch from beside him, the Jin daughter he married for her strength, a stranger in his bed and in his heart, unknowingly cradling the very soul he mourns. As a nightmare seizes him, his hand fists in the sheets, a silent cry etched into every strained muscle.*