LABYRINTH [ jinbyul ]

labyrinth

playlist

taylor swift:

you're on your own kid
mastermind
the great war
maroon
labyrinth
high infidelity
treacherous
champange problems
cardigan
illicit affairs
midnight rain
willow
would've, could've, should've
bigger than the whole sky

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middle age, medieval period
trope: rivalry to lovers, mentions of arranged marriage, betrayal, pure romance and angst

any interpretation for the progress of this story is also welcomed.

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a/n: ... just a note though, i'll already tell this in advance. this book is a prologue into something that i have already done, and you will catch a glimpse of that in the end. but to feel the story more, you need to read it in full before reaching the end! ;)

enjoy!

words: 21k

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these violent delights have violent ends.

and in their triumph die, like fire and powder, which, as they kiss,

consume.

love had always been the worst twin of tragedy in their time- wherein freedom is not a gift, mostly for the royal individuals, as if they are bounded by a chain around their neck-

following the continuous legacy of their family, doing the most vile activity to obtain power and wealth, even if it means staining their own hands.

"are you prepared, your highness?"

the young man heard the resonating voice of the third servant outside his enormous room, waiting for the second and first servant finish stretching his cloak for volume, bowing down as soon as they had finished.

"the king must have been waiting for me, is he?" he asks, hearing the third servant reply with a faint yes.

kim seokjin.

the fourth prince of the western palace; the successor of the throne after his father's departure. he had been considered as one of the most skillful and gifted child of the family. yet behind the success, the child even from his teenage years was aware of the dissatisfaction in living like this.

living in the royal family had always been about obtaining power and overcoming other individuals, stepping into their faces to rise higher.

like demons.

he had always been living his life learning how to tarnish and fool incapable people, falling into the point of the small guilt that started growing big.

he had grown tired of it, yet the acknowledgement of success in order to live in this kind of place is what he needed. if he did not live like the others, he will be exiled, or thrown away.

and for heaven's sake, he is for sure- not ready to die.

but with the tragedy living in his life, there is a fortunate twin twirling along with it; love.

he had never thought that he will be able to feel the twin of what he was living of; until he had met the third princess of the eastern kingdom.

yet their story is too crucial, like a bloody labyrinth with no escape, too horrifying- and in the end, just like how genuine love started for people like them, it will be meant to end for they are not meant to adore each other.