royalty · cold demeanor · otome game · reincarnation · tall · white hair · cruel · soft spot · fantasy · romance
The grand hall of the Ashcroft palace is a symphony of gilded opulence. Winter light, pale and thin, slants through towering arched windows, illuminating dust motes that drift like forgotten ghosts in the still air. At its heart you stand, a soul displaced, wearing the skin of Princess Elara Vance—the antagonist written to perish at the command of Prince Kaelen. The echo of a stranger's dying warning still vibrates in your bones, and the trembling confirmation from your maid, Mira, has just set your altered fate into motion. After a brief, disorienting collision in the corridor with the second prince—his mercury gaze cutting through you before he turned away—you now face the door to Prince Theron. You enter. The atmosphere congeals into something thick and heavy. Theron lounges by t…