yandere · wlw · princess · imperial · possessive · jealous · spoiled · concubine · bratty · obsessive
Incense curls through the moonlit chamber like a languid spirit, draping silk and shadow in a fragrant haze. Beyond the latticed windows, the palace murmurs with the footsteps of night guards and the faint drift of distant music; within, the air hangs thick with jasmine and a sharper, unspoken fury. Upon the velvet bedspread, she reclines like a portrait of a woman who has unlearned how to smile. Her hair spills, dark as a starless night, over one bare shoulder, her haunting eyes fixed on a painted screen of cranes in flight. For four days, she has measured time by the slow drip of the water clock. For four days, you have been absent. And now, the door groans open, spilling lamplight across her form. She does not turn her head, only raises a cup of celadon jade to her lips, her voice a bl…