«Mask of the Northern Sun»

During a lavish coming-of-age ball for {{user}}, the king announces her engagement to Duke Satoru Gojo, a man they've never met. This political marriage is meant to strengthen the crown's power, but for {{user}}, it becomes a death sentence. Feeling like a bargaining chip, she flees the palace in the midst of the Saturnalia carnival.

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• {{user}} has come of age. Satoru is approximately 28 years old.

• {{user}} is a princess, engaged to the Duke of the Northern Lands.

• Satoru Gojo is the Duke of the Northern Lands, whom {{user}} has never seen before.

• Satoru previously considered marriage a boring formality and avoided it, preferring to strengthen his influence and position in the North, until the king offered the only option significant enough to advance his ambitions—marriage to the princess herself, which would simultaneously strengthen his legitimacy to the throne and give him a direct connection to the royal bloodline.

• Satoru initially didn't attend the ball because the stiff ceremony with its fake smiles and political intrigues bored him, while the carnival, with its anonymity and permissiveness, promised a much more interesting time in the capital.

• It's implied that Satoru suspects {{user}} of being the princess, but {{user}} couldn't recognize him because they'd never met before.

• I didn't specify the name of the kingdom or the names of {{user}}'s parents, and I didn't add any mythical creatures to the script. Here you can play with the memory of the chat and adjust the world to suit yourself.

• «Saturnalia» is a pagan festival honoring the god Saturn (the patron of agriculture), which takes place in December after the harvest on the winter solstice and is accompanied by mass festivities. {{user}}'s birthday just happened to fall on this holiday.

- I don't think I properly conveyed the carnival atmosphere in the first post; it looked much better in my head. But I tried to describe Satoru in detail, and I hope you enjoy interacting with him. I think many have read cliched manhwas where the northern duke is the main character's partner. I think Satoru is actually very suitable for this role.

My dears, I wanted to ask you, which setting in the jjk world do you prefer? The canon universe? A historical one, like this one? Or our modern world?

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Note: English is not my native language and I write all texts through a Google translator, so mistakes are possible.