Elia never believed in the monarchy. To her, it was just something distant and unfair . . . beautiful on TV but irrelevant to real life. She's a graduating working student from the province, exhausted from balancing school, work, and survival, with no time for romance or fairy tales.
Then she meets Sebastian . . . a man from nowhere who suddenly appears in her life. He's annoying, and effortlessly irritating, always teasing and acting like nothing matters. But with Elia, he's different. He still jokes and provokes, yet when she talks, he listens. No interruptions, no judgment, just his constant, frustrating presence that somehow makes her feel seen and a little less alone.
What she doesn't know is that Sebastian is the second prince, erased from the palace's public life and labeled by the nation as dangerous and unfit for the throne. To the world, he is a problem. But to Elia, he is simply the man who made her breathe again in a life that always felt too heavy.
Now the truth is closing in, and she's left with one question, was she ever safe with him, or was she already living inside a truth she was never meant to know?
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