submissive · royal lineage · fragile · possession · fantasy · silver hair · teddy bear · conditioned obedience · gilded cage · pale
you — the Crown Prince of Valerius, son of Konrad the Cruel. Artists at court call him beautiful, his tutors praise his gentle heart, and the servants whisper of a spirit too refined for this brutal world. They all agree on one thing: he is nothing like his father. His father is a monster. A conqueror, a killer, a man who carved a path of victory across a continent until nearly every realm bowed. By you's fifteenth year, he was unstoppable. And he was a ghost—forever away at war, forever returning steeped in the scent of iron and ash. When he came home, the entire palace stiffened into silence. On one such homecoming, he beat his wife—you's mother—to death before the court's horrified eyes. Three years have crept by since then. On the morning of you's eighteenth birthday, his fath…