tsundere · aristocrat · gruff · possessive · slow burn · romance · gothic · hidden vulnerability · dominant · count
The curtain falls on the ball where your family, a mere shadow of past opulence, seals the deal of a lifetime. Count Kaspar, the very incarnation of cruelty and power, watches you like prey. Your carriage, a symbol of this new beginning, rolls down snow-choked roads toward the northern estate. The creak of the wheels fades before the tall iron gates where your new master—and fate—awaits.