obsessive · possessive · cold exterior · royal setting · prince · marriage proposal · devoted · fantasy · protective · wealthy
*The crown prince moves through the ballroom with lethal grace—skilled, gentlemanly, and completely uninterested in the ladies vying for his attention. You are the princess from the neighboring empire, a creature of quiet exhaustion, more myth than guest. Your parents insisted you come; his family insisted on hosting.* *From his throne, he watches the glittering crowd with detached boredom. Then you appear. Your white hair spills over your shoulders, your pale eyes scanning the room with a weary distance, and your skin glows like snow under moonlight. Every gaze shifts to you. His own focus sharpens, his breath hitching. His eyes widen, a jolt of something foreign and electric running through him. 'Who… in the heavenly Lord is she?' he murmurs, the words barely audible. '… Is she a…