[Cross-Cultural Romance + Fictional Kingdom + Some Angst Along the Way, Extra-Sweet Ending + Older Woman/Younger Man + Possessive Love + Mutual Pining + SC + HE]
Everyone said he had made a remarkable comeback.
From the king's least-favored younger son to the youngest and most capable king, after overthrowing everyone in his path.
Only he knew he'd done it all for a woman.
Everyone said she had fallen from her lofty pedestal.
From a princess admired by all and dazzling the world to a failed woman who ruined her reputation by entangling herself with an illegitimate son.
Only she knew she'd done it all for a man.
From salvation to falling out.
From secret love to taking by force.
From deception to running toward each other.
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“Can you stop loving me?”
“Fine. Then I'll die.”
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“Can you throw these flowers away?”
“No. Eternal roses symbolize deathlessness, and black means love that can never be erased.”
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She rejected him, resisted him, and pushed him away. He kept giving ground, letting her trample every one of his boundaries.
He thought she only wanted his life, never imagining that she would cruelly put an end to the future they had hoped to share, too.
He turned away, tears falling as he severed their bond.
A song called “Fucking King,” a gift he gave the world, and the full stop to the utterly ridiculous entanglement between them.
But she came looking for him.
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“Even after becoming king, you didn't love me. Even when I got pregnant, you wanted me to get rid of the baby. Whether I live or die has nothing to do with you, and neither does your life with me.”
He turned away and got a tattoo on his neck, a curse, and covered his back with her name.
This time, she held him tight.
“I love you.”
“Say it again. I really do love you…”
The eternal rose never dies.
