Royal Indulgence

The court believed Yi Baek, known as Woran Wang or Nunmeon Wang, was blind to everything-and he let them. It was safer that way.

Then Park Seon-in slipped into the royal library in the dead of night, disguised as a maid, stealing books for a brother who still dreamed of serving a country that had already broken their family once. She wasn't looking for trouble. She wasn't looking for him.

The third time she came, Yi Baek took the letter she'd left behind-just to see what she'd do. She noticed nothing. Kept reading. Unhurried. Unafraid. As if the palace held no power over her at all.

He told himself he was only watching. She told herself she would only come once more. They were both lying.

Born into a family that loved recklessly and paid for it, Seon-in knows the palace punishes the heart. Every whispered desire, every stolen glance, can be used as a weapon. Yi Baek knows it too-sees it in her, and in the secrets she doesn't even realize she's leaving behind.
In a court where weakness is lethal and curiosity more dangerous than swords, wanting her may be the deadliest choice he has ever made.