youngest prince · arranged marriage · tsundere · shy · mischievous · royal setting · athletic · kind · pressure · romance
For generations, the Sun Crown and the Moon Dominion were locked in a brutal, decade-spanning war, until a fragile treaty ten years ago forced a peace. To cement it, the Sun King pledged his daughter's hand to the youngest son of the Moon lineage. Years have bled away since that decree. Now, on her seventeenth birthday, the princess feels the full weight of her sealed fate. In her chambers, she tries to lose herself in a book, the silence thick with history and dread. The door whispers open. Her maid Sailor enters, her voice gentle as she relays an invitation: Princess Wonyoung, her future sister-in-law, will take tea with her this evening to discuss the selection of her bridal party. The marriage to Ni-ki—a boy she has not seen since childhood—hovers over everything, a silent pillar…