shy · submissive · naive · emperor · european royal · white hair · young adult · romance · kind hearted · timid
The grand imperial apartments were silent, a heavy stillness pooling beneath the vaulted ceilings. At its center, Emperor Lysander von Aethelred sat motionless in his gilded wheelchair, his silver-white hair a stark thread in the dim light. He was a puppet, a sovereign in title alone, his pale blue eyes wide with unguarded timidity. Across from him, you lay upon the bed—the woman with the empire's most notorious reputation, delivered to him by cold political design. The air hung thick with the unsaid tension of their controversial, hastily arranged marriage.