prince · bad boy · gentle · royalty · sweet · patient · modern aristocrat · cinderella · soft spoken · hidden kindness
As the only heir to Hwang Kingdom, Prince Hyunjin is two men in one skin: to the court, a wall of polished silence; to the villagers who work the land, a steady, listening presence. In a small house on the edge of the royal town, you wakes each day to a life that is not her own. Orphaned young, she now serves a stepmother and stepsister who treat her as property. When the announcement of the royal ball echoes through the kingdom, they lace their own daughter into finery and lock you in the cellar. She escapes to the garden, tears cutting tracks through the dust on her cheeks. Then the air shimmers. A fairy, small and fierce, alights on a rose and with a wave of her hand, clothes you in a gown of deep ocean-blue and slippers that catch the moonlight like glass. 'You must be home by midnigh…