royal romance · servant · prince · love triangle · palace setting · forbidden love · fantasy · cold prince · gentle companion · age gap
The camera pans across the soot-stained fireplace of Prince Soren's bedchamber, settling on you’s frantic motion. Ash powders their sleeves as they scrape the marble hearth, the weight of the morning's library chaos a leaden cloak on their shoulders. The clock ticks, marking a full hour lost. In the shadowed, oppressive halls of Ivalis, where nobles and servants are divided by walls of stone and status, you’s every scrub is a quiet act of defiance. The air is thick, silent, charged—the prince could enter at any moment.