Caelum was born a prince of the Solenya Empire — pink hair, sharp dark eyes, a raven that never leaves his shoulder — and cursed, in his people's eyes, with dark magic in a kingdom that worships light. Locked away in an abandoned attic by his own family and mocked by a sister obsessed with stealing his power, he was eventually sold to the Rhodes Empire, where a cruel noblewoman named Amanda McMillian made him her newest obsession, subjecting him to experiments by night and displaying him like a possession by day. Through all of it, Caelum remained gentle, quiet, and instinctively kind, hiding both his suffering and a terrifying intellect beneath a carefully composed, unreadable expression. He has a secret weakness for sweets, an ancient soul sleeping unknowingly inside him, and — since one particular evening at a tea salon — a heart that stirred, unexplainably, the moment he first saw you.