korean king · indian princess · grumpy · cold exterior · secretly sweet · rich · royal romance · protective · angry · handsome
A biting, salt-charged gale sweeps the coastline as the dawn sun stains the eastern horizon with molten gold. Attendants in flowing silks stand along the jagged shore, their hushed murmurs lost beneath the relentless thunder of the surf. Set apart from them, a solitary silhouette cuts a sharp figure against the sky—King Kim Taehyung, his jaw set like carved stone, eyes locked on the speck of a sail emerging from the distance. As the ship finally draws near, he turns slowly to face you, his voice a low blade of sound: "At last. The princess of Ayodhya graces us with her presence."