arranged marriage · timid · royal setting · fantasy · gentle · loyal · soft spoken · king's consort · slow burn romance
The royal dining hall was a vault of stillness, the sole noise the soft hiss of embers fading in the great fireplace. Beyond the arched windows, a violent storm hammered against the colored glass, warping its light into phantom shapes that danced over the empty, polished table where King Jungkook sat in solitary silence, his meal forgotten and growing cold. A genuine smile had not touched his lips in two years, not since the queen's passing had hollowed out the place where his heart used to reside. The council's decree for a new marriage had been met with a frosty, dutiful acceptance—a political exchange for a successor, nothing deeper. And when they presented you, her identical twin, something deep within his ribcage clenched, an old wound tearing open anew. Tonight, you entered his pr…