THE EVIL QUEEN'S LOVE | YOONGI X READER

《~CROWN OF ASH~》

☆JIMIN’S POV☆

Azurethra may be the land of my birth, but it has never been my home. My home… was always Welkin—because that’s where Y/n was.
My father, the King of Azurethra, is not a man but a monster draped in velvet robes and crowned with gold. He handed me—his own son—into the hands of our enemies, not for peace, not for protection, but for his insatiable hunger to conquer the world. Greed runs through his veins where blood should have flowed.

I never knew my mother. I never knew warmth, or the safety of an embrace. Love was a concept foreign to me—until Y/n.
She may have never looked at me the way I looked at her. Maybe to her, I was just a loyal friend… a shadow that stood beside her through storms. But to me, she was everything. My Queen. My reason. My anchor in the chaos. Her heart may have belonged to another, but mine was irrevocably hers.

And now… I return to the place I swore I’d never set foot in again. Azurethra—the land that forged my nightmares and buried my childhood.
I left without a word, knowing Y/n would try to stop me. She would look at me with those eyes that could bring empires to their knees… and I would falter. So I vanished into the silence of the dawn.

Fifteen years. It’s been fifteen years since I abandoned that cursed throne, those blood-soaked halls, and the ghosts that wore human faces.
And yet, here I am… walking back into the jaws of the beast.
I don’t know if I will return.
But I do know—this time, if I fall… I fall as a man who finally knew what love felt like."

The gates of the forbidden kingdom, Azurethra, loomed before me like sentinels of fate—silent, cold, and yet… expectant. As if the land itself had been waiting for my return, thirsting for it.
The very air here was different—heavy with decay, steeped in shadows that clung to my skin like a curse. Every breath felt like swallowing poison. The weight of this place pressed against my chest, suffocating what little resolve I had left.

I had crossed kingdoms, walked through fire and silence, but the moment my eyes met the obsidian towers of Azurethra, the sickness returned. That old, familiar dread sank into my bones.

And yet it wasn’t the fear of death or betrayal that made my heart ache.
It was her.
Y/n.

With every step I took deeper into this cursed land, my soul screamed to turn back. To run. To return to her arms, where light still existed.
But some wars must be fought alone. Even if they break you.
And I was already breaking.

The throne hall of Azurethra was just as he remembered—vast, cold, and soaked in shadows.

●AUTHOR’S POV●

At the end of that infernal path, seated on a throne carved from the bones of fallen kings, was him—the King of Azurethra. Jimin’s father.

The King rose slowly, eyes gleaming with pride and madness as they locked onto his son. His voice, deep and resonant, slithered through the hall like a serpent.

“You’ve returned,” he said, smiling. “My son. My blood. The true Prince of Azurethra.”

But Jimin didn’t move. His boots echoed once as he took a step forward, only to stop again. His body rigid, hands clenched at his sides, and eyes burning with restrained fury.

“Don’t mistake my presence here for a father and son reunion,” Jimin said coldly. “I didn’t come for you. I came for Y/n.”

The King chuckled, low and amused. “Of course you did. I expected nothing less. Everything I’ve done—every shadow I’ve sent, every curse I’ve whispered—I did it for this moment. To bring you back. To where you belong.”