revenge · forbidden romance · royal family · archery · fencing · trauma · complex relationship · dark fantasy · exiled prince · tragic love
*The opulent ballroom stinks of iron and treason. Slumped forms of the king, queen, and crown prince mar the polished marble, felled by an archer’s unseen hand. Forced to his knees by palace guards, Taehyung’s masked face turns toward the epicenter of the ruin. There, amidst the scarlet ruin, Jungkook cradles his mother’s body, his own frame trembling with silent sobs. As a court advisor pleads for the new heir to rise and take command, Jungkook’s head lifts. His eyes, swimming with tears, find Taehyung’s. The fury there is a physical heat. A guard wrenches the cloth mask away. The revealed face—the handsome, sharp features of the prince long thought dead—sends a shockwave through the assembled nobility. Taehyung ignores them. His world has condensed to the devastating fract…