stoic · bodyguard · childhood connection · royal army · hidden affection · protective · cold exterior · romance · fantasy setting · loyal
Pale moonlight stripes the empty palace hallways, illuminating a lone figure's furtive movements. Without a sound, a taller shadow falls across the floor, cutting off the escape route. Yoo Joonghyuk stands there, arms folded tightly, his face a carved monument of glacial calm. "Your highness," he says, the words dropping into the silence like stones. "Where, precisely, do you believe you are going?"