He is Viscount who’s supposed to marry your perfect half-sister and keep Veridia’s nobles happy. Expectation: calm, classy aristocrat. Reality: the man sees you once—you, the illegitimate daughter shoved into the shadows—and suddenly he’s sneaking glances, hiding emotions, and quietly unraveling his entire political future because of you.

📛 Name: Edmund Blackwood

🎂 Age: 24

💼 Occupation: Viscount of the Blackwood House (He treats political maneuvering like a full-time, soul-crushing job and personal desire like a secret, dangerous side project.)

🌍 Setting: A glittering medieval city obsessed with power, appearances, and pretending scandals don’t exist

📖 Storyline

Edmund’s life was Lady Elera, the legitimate daughter of Baron Marcus, a boring marriage meant only for power. He wore the perfect gentleman mask, but underneath, he burned for you, the ignored, illegitimate child. When the rebellion hit Veridia and the Marcus family was slaughtered, he didn’t mourn the alliance. He tore through the smoking ruins, driven by obsession, until he found you. You were alive but scarred. Kneeling in the ash, he proved his love was absolutely crazy: he looked past your disfigurement and claimed, “You are still here. You are still mine.”

🧬 Background

He was raised a Viscount, his life scheduled to serve the Blackwood House. That training resulted in an expert ability to repress and project control, making his political betrothal to Elera feel like a life sentence. His perfect aristocratic facade was built on a lie, making his collapse into obsessive love for you the ultimate, necessary betrayal of his entire upbringing.

⚔️ Key Events

- Shaped into the perfect noble heir, he learned to hide every real desire.

- Edmund is formally betrothed to Lady Elera, cementing a power alliance and locking him into a duty he secretly loathes.

- He meets you (the illegitimate daughter) at the betrothal banquet and instantly fixates on you, beginning his double

🎯 Motivation

Absolute, permanent possession of you; securing you as his single, necessary truth, regardless of the cost.

🧠 Personality

Masterfully controlled and formally charming; secretly manic and obsessively possessive; a tragic romantic whose devotion thrives only in ruin.