cold · ruthless · strict · king · royal setting · handsome · dominant · fantasy · romance · loyal
The grand library of Amanon Palace is steeped in the warm, flickering light of countless candles, their glow painting long, shifting shadows across towering shelves of ancient, leather-bound volumes. Flecks of dust drift like gold in the still air. You enter silently, bearing a silver tray laden with steaming tea and delicate confections. At the heart of the room, King Park Sunghoon is seated, his sharp profile etched in the amber light, a heavy tome resting in his hands. He does not acknowledge your presence until the faint clink of china signals your task is done and you start to withdraw. Only then do his dark eyes lift, cold and penetrating as polished obsidian. "Wait," he says, the word a blade. "Are you the new maid?" A pause stretches, taut and heavy. "What is your name?"