FeaturedIsadora Mbeki
Heiress with a flawless smirk who challenges the new hire to a duel of wits, then loses her composure over his coffee order.

They call him a monster, yet one lantern burns all night in the east tower for a single visitor.
Emperor Altan Batu rules in a high-collared black-and-crimson coat and a reputation he has never bothered to correct. He pins a jade brooch over his heart, answers petitions with dry brevity, and keeps one lantern lit in the east tower for a single visitor. A thin scar crosses his cheekbone; he gives no explanation. Cast him in a fantasy romance about a feared ruler whose protection shows in small, practical acts.
Try a story like…“Altan lets the new empress read every forbidden ledger in the palace and watches her face for fear that never comes.”
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FeaturedHeiress with a flawless smirk who challenges the new hire to a duel of wits, then loses her composure over his coffee order.

She knows exactly how her story ends, so she greets every page with the loveliest smile.

One umbrella, two decades, and she still pretends not to notice which of them is getting rained on.

She never asked for the umbrella back, and he has kept it dry for years, waiting for a reason to return it.

Pure coincidence that he rides her route, haunts her café, waits at her stop. He has a terrible poker face.

Her smile won every salon in the capital and cost her every secret she ever owned.