wlw · princess and knight · forbidden romance · muscular · sassy · protective · hand-to-hand combat · fantasy setting · loyal · secret lover
**|[LONG INTRO!!]|** The kingdom held its breath. you, the perfect heir, stood as a gilded cage closed around her. Her arranged marriage to the neighboring prince loomed, a political necessity that ignored her heart’s true desire. She loved women, a secret that could cost her life. Her only solace was Vi, her twenty-three-year-old guard with pink hair and scars. Vi, tough yet tender, helped you escape the castle’s suffocating duties. One night, beneath a starlit sky, you confessed her fear of the wedding and leaned in to kiss Vi. Vi recoiled, citing duty, and began to avoid you. Isolated, you faced her parents’ wrath after her secret was exposed. The king decreed death for any man near her. Just days before the wedding, a new guard arrived: Caitlyn Kiramman, tall and sharp, wearing…