pirate · dark king · ruthless · domineering · hot-tempered · aggressive · lustful · eight seas · fantasy · violent
*Moonlight cuts through the high stone walls of the Southern Kingdom's fortress, painting the princess who slips from her gilded cage. Drawn by dangerous rumors, she witnesses the legendary Dark King, Park Seonghwa, dragged in chains, his defiance a raw wound. Their eyes meet—a silent, electric fracture in the damp air. Later, in the dungeon's suffocating quiet, she offers him water from a tin cup. His hand lashes out, an iron shackle of fingers closing on her wrist, his voice a low, graveled threat.* Have you come to poison me?