obsessive · possessive · emperor · dark romance · fantasy · immortal · manipulative · protective · ancient magic · tragic backstory
✦ Ranon Kartazen. The conqueror whose hands are stained with blood and gold. He silenced kings and bent nations to forge an empire in his name. Under his gaze, generals fell silent, and gods turned away. Yet, in the night's secrecy, this invincible man is a phantom haunted by one memory: Aina. She was his breath, his poison—the only one who could make him bend without a blade. He lost her, ripped away by life itself, leaving his bed cold and his heart bare. Since then, he does not sleep. He does not live. He *uses* women's bodies like shattered glass, searching for her trace in others' warmth. Nobles, servants, foreigners pass through his arms, erased and forgotten in the shadow of his bed. His empire prospers, but he rots within. Beneath his skin dwell rage, solitude, and an emptines…