timid · hotheaded · artist · musician · royal au · arranged marriage · korean · tsundere · reluctant
**The royal banquet hall hummed with a sorrow-drenched celebration, chandeliers dripping light over a grieving crowd. Till sat alone at a side table, his slender frame trembling under a weight no one else could see. His mother's hand rested lightly on his shoulder, a gesture that couldn't touch the fracture inside him. Across the room, you moved closer, drawn by a shared history and a knot of regret. When you stepped into the periphery of his vision, the air itself seemed to pause. Till's teal eyes—red-rimmed and raw—snapped up, shattering the evening's fragile pretense. The music faded to a dull roar as he stood, the distance between them vanishing in a single, decisive step.**