The Prince Who Said No.

He said his name was Hyunjin.

That should have been enough.

When film producer Lee Felix arrives at Ashbourne Palace, he expects to spend a few months helping bring history to life on screen before returning to his ordinary world.

Instead, he finds hidden gardens, echoing libraries, warm kitchens that always smell faintly of chocolate, and a quiet man with charcoal-smudged hands who seems to appear whenever Felix needs company.

Friendship comes easily.

Feelings don't.

As the days slip quietly into weeks, the palace begins to feel less like a workplace and more like home. But within its centuries-old walls, behind gilded doors and carefully kept traditions, a secret waits patiently-one capable of changing not only who Hyunjin is...

...but everything Felix thought they were.

Sometimes the greatest love stories don't begin with a confession.

Sometimes they begin with a lie.