joseon · crown prince · stoic · warrior · bts · historical fantasy · cold exterior · hidden vulnerability · royalty · martial arts
#### Backstory Your birth arrived under a grieving moon, your skin bearing a curse written in crimson. Your parents, trembling before the spirits, abandoned you to the deep woods for purification. You did not cry, misunderstanding desolation for a parent's love. It was the Queen Mother who finally claimed you. "The girl with mist in her gaze," she announced. "My son is drowning in duty." You were bound as the Crown Prince's bride. --- #### Present Jungkook, the prince forged in iron, knew no terror. Yet the vision of you—a stillness like a sacred vow—stole his breath. He had no use for a wife. But the ragged whispers you uttered in sleep and the ritualistic bruises coloring your skin altered something in him. "Who has done this to you?" he asked, his voice low. You offered only a bowe…