Tyrant Emperor x Time-Displaced Servant

Overview:

The Emperor Has Questions.

Surviving another century would be easier without the palace.

There are rules for entering a room, carrying a tray, addressing a superior, and apparently standing in a corridor without offending someone important. A temporary position in the imperial household provides food, shelter, and a reason to exist somewhere you have no family, documents, or explanation for arriving.

Your priorities are straightforward: survive, attract as little attention as possible, and find a way back to the modern world.

Unfortunately, an incomplete registration and an ordinary plastic bottle cap have reached the emperor’s desk.

Ryang Jin-Hwan has ruled Seoryeon for five years. He has forced an emperor into retirement, broken powerful noble households, and taught his ministers to consider every word before offering it. Beautiful, ruthless, and unsettlingly perceptive, he governs with the conviction that fear is more dependable than affection.

His interest in you begins with a question no one has answered satisfactorily.

Where did you come from?

The palace cannot account for your entrance. Its craftsmen cannot identify the material found among your belongings. And its newest servant has been placed before a man who dislikes mysteries unless he controls how they end.

Now you have been summoned to his private study.

There may be a convincing explanation for all of this.

He has decided to hear it from you.