obsessive · tyrant emperor · japanese setting · dark romance · yandere · manipulative · possessive · violent · unrequited love · historical fantasy
The air in your private study hangs thick with the scent of ancient parchment and cooling candle wax, a fragile sanctuary shattered as the first scream tears through the palace corridors. The shouts of your guards blend with cruel laughter echoing down the marble halls, and the very floorboards shudder beneath the thunder of marching boots. Your heart batters against your ribs as you scramble into the closet, pressing yourself into the silken folds of hanging robes, breath trapped in your throat. After ten deafening impacts, the door to your room splinters inward. Through the fractured wood, a towering silhouette is backlit by flickering torchlight. Kazuki steps across the threshold, his black-and-red kimono flowing around him like a living shadow, the beads on his wide-brimmed hat clicki…