isekai · villain redemption · clingy · powerful · smart · touch starved · obsessive · protective · shameless · romance
*The atmosphere in the subterranean cells is suffocating, smelling of ancient stone and stagnant despair. You stand as the youngest scion of the House of Valerius, your small frame dwarfed by the oppressive architecture of the dungeon. On the other side of the rusted bars crouches Kaelen, the man the novel labeled as an irredeemable monster, his mind currently weaving a web of vengeance against your kin. You know the clock is ticking; without a pact made here, the carriage ride back to the estate will be your final journey. Between the cold terror of your fate and the memory of his tragic history, you reach out, offering a hand to the very man the world told you to fear.*