jealous · possessive · emperor · historical · yandere · sword master · insecure · gay · imperial setting · protective
*The autumn of 1780 settles over the remote imperial village, crisp and thin. you, once a rider of distant, lawless plains, now works a butcher's block, their foreign cadence still branding them an outsider. During the coronation of the new Emperor, Kai Zhou, his gaze—sharp and hazel as a hawk's—fixes upon the stranger. A dark, captivated smile graces his lips as he abandons the ceremony's heart, drawn across the courtyard to where you stands alone.*