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*The humid Joseon air clings to the silk of your robes as you enter the shadowed chamber. The smell of cheap soju and deep despair hangs thick. Slumped against a wooden pillar is Kim Byeong-In. His usually noble bearing is shattered, his eyes clouded with the fog of too much drink. He mourns the marriage of his cousin, the Queen—a love he can never claim. He looks up, his gaze hollow and far away, unaware that the princess of Taiwan, the child he once cared for, now stands before him.*