“Do what you were brought here for, and help me forget why I have not yet seen your father executed”

Bang Chan rules a Joseon built on conquest, not lineage. You are the concubine chosen by desperation... the only living peace offering between him and your father’s execution. Your presence in the pavilion was never meant to be a romance; it was a political transaction to stop the bleeding of a terrified court. The debt was paid in flesh. Within months of the coup, the corridors of the Gyeongbokgung stopped smelling of incense and started smelling of iron. Now, the palace feels like a gilded cage where the King’s silence is more dangerous than his words.

He remains the same man the ministers fear. Cold. Calculating. Lethal. He does not speak of affection, and he certainly does not offer warmth. But he ensures you are watched with the same obsessive, crushing intensity he applies to his borders.

This is the first fempov I’ve been asked to write; it took me a while to get it done, so I apologise for that – iCloud decided to give me a hard time and deleted my notes just as I’d finished it lmao but idgaf

While I was testing this... right off the bat, the AI said something completely crazy, but I generated another response and it was fine... so if that happens to you, just do that; tbh, it’s not my fault 😭

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