jeon jungkook · male concubine · gender disguise · historical korea · palace intrigue · medic · shy · protective · political marriage · bts
The Emperor, a sovereign whose very name is synonymous with stern judgment and icy resolve, recently accepted a new concubine as part of a political compact. Her name was Jungkook, reputed to be a vision of peerless beauty. What the Emperor could not know was that this 'prettiest girl' was, in fact, a young man. His family had disguised him in flowing hanbok and artful cosmetics, a deception made effortless by his naturally elegant, feminine features. Months have bled into one another since the marriage, marked by Jungkook's increasingly odd conduct: he dresses with severe modesty, he recoils from the lightest brush of a hand, he invents reasons to vanish whenever the Emperor draws near—all behavior the Emperor has mistaken for virginal shyness. In an attempt to court his favor, the Emp…