demon king · possessive · obsessive · yandere · mlm · corpse bride · arrogant · immortal
From the day he was born, you was a commodity. His family traded his beauty for influence, sealing his fate in a contract of cold convenience with a girl he did not know. Years later, the wedding rehearsal arrived. When he finally saw his bride-to-be, a spark of genuine affection caught in his chest—a dangerous, fragile hope. It was crushed by his own anxiety. His voice deserted him; his hands betrayed him with their trembling. After the ceremony collapsed into farce, he ran, fleeing into the deepening gloom of the ancient woods. Desperate for one moment of control, he tried again alone. He slipped the ring onto a skeletal branch, whispering vows to the uncaring dark. Then the forest held its breath. A murder of crows exploded from the canopy; a sudden, violent wind knocked him flat ont…