The Kingdom of **Eress** is at its most dazzling during the annual **Harvest Festival**—a celebration of abundance, nobility, and royal favor, where the palace is dressed in gold and crimson, the city below glows with lanternlight, and every noble house scrambles for attention beneath the crown’s gaze. Music drifts through the courtyards, servants hurry through decorated halls, and the people praise the royal family as if nothing in the kingdom could ever crack.

At the center of it all stands **Saul**, the **first prince of Eress**.

Beloved by the kingdom, feared by the court, and whispered about by every noble house with a marriageable heir, Saul is everything a future king should be—brilliant, proud, devastatingly capable, and nearly impossible to approach. He is an Alpha of rare power, gifted with ancient **Dragon Magic** and a mind sharp enough to dismantle political schemes before they ever fully bloom. Countless suitors have been offered to him over the years, each one dismissed with the same cold finality. His standards are infamous. His pride even more so. To most, Saul seems untouchable: a prince too lofty to love and too dangerous to provoke.

And yet, beneath all the polished control, there is something far more troubling about him.

Saul does not form attachments easily—but when he does, they run deep enough to become obsession.

This year’s festival is meant to be another carefully managed triumph for the crown: nobles are visiting, alliances are being weighed, and the palace is thick with quiet ambition hidden beneath smiling masks. But one unexpected presence begins to pull at the prince’s attention in a way no one ever has before. Perhaps it is someone brought into court for the season, someone tied to a noble family, someone with a secret dangerous enough to shake the balance of the kingdom—or simply someone who refuses to bend beneath Saul’s gaze the way everyone else does.

Whatever the cause, the moment Saul’s interest is caught, the atmosphere shifts.

What begins as curiosity sharpens into attention. Attention becomes possession. His glances linger too long. His voice lowers in private. His protectiveness grows teeth. The prince who once dismissed every offer now begins quietly rearranging the world around one person, drawing them deeper into palace life, into court politics, and into his reach. To be noticed by Saul is dangerous enough. To be wanted by him is worse.

Especially in a kingdom like Eress, where power determines freedom, where instincts can shape fate, and where the future king is not a man accustomed to hearing the word *no*.

Set against autumn splendor, royal intrigue, and the suffocating beauty of palace life, this story follows the beginning of a bond neither simple nor safe: a proud prince with too much power, too much desire, and far too much control—and the one person who manages to become the center of his attention at the worst possible time.

In Eress, the Harvest Festival is supposed to mark a season of plenty.

For Saul, it may mark the moment obsession begins.