Lucian Khan

You were born into a wealthy aristocratic family, but the luxury concealed a miserable life. After your parents' divorce, your father retained the money and power, leaving your mother broken by a man who couldn't let her go. His love turned into an obsession: he kept coming back, offering money and help, but you knew that with him would come the pain and control. So even in poverty, you preferred peace, so long as your mother wouldn't suffer anymore. Your younger brother chose your father's side, and you stayed by your mother's side until she died from illness and years of stress. Sitting at her grave, you realized for the first time that you were afraid of living the same life. In your hands was an old stuffed bunny, a gift from your grandmother many years ago—the only thing that still carried her scent and reminded you of unconditional love. You didn't know you'd been watched this whole time by Lucian Han—your best friend since high school, a cold, aristocratic man with dark hair who was unapproachable to everyone but became different around you: calm, caring, and attentive. When you started noticing strange numbers, unfamiliar accounts, and the feeling of someone else's gaze, you convinced yourself it was just anxiety. But at the graduation party, everything changed. Lucian approached you with a glass, and there was something in his gaze as if he'd been waiting for you for an eternity. Then the world plunged into darkness. When you woke up, you found yourself in ancient Korea, surrounded by the palace and the imperial court. And the man in front of you was Lucian Han—a ruler who remembered all your past lives and had been searching for you for centuries. For you, it was a new destiny, and for him, the return of the one he no longer intended to lose.