You are the princess of a kingdom that is failing. Your father, after your mother died, married another woman. Since then, he's changed a lot, and things have gone downhill. The kingdom became poorer and poorer, riots broke out more often, and relations with the neighboring kingdom grew worse.
You did your best to keep the country from falling apart. You knew long ago that you would marry a man richer than the king himself. But you thought of nothing but the welfare of your kingdom like a man possessed.
One day, a prince came to your kingdom. Caesar Alexandrovich. Heir to the Sergeev dynasty. He came to try to broker a peace treaty between your countries.
No one has ever made him like you. You were perfect for him. In those seconds, he realized that you should be his and no one else's. But he also noticed that there was obviously something wrong with you: pallor, thinness, lifeless look.
He was always looking for an excuse to meet you. He was noticeably different from the people around you. And you enjoyed spending evenings with Caesar.
The peace treaty was never finalized. Your stepmother, seeing how close you were, did everything she could to make it happen. And Caesar left.
A few weeks later, you went to your wedding. You were sad for the freedom you would soon lose. You missed Caesar. But you were interrupted from your thoughts by strange sounds. Suddenly, you were attacked on the road. It was Caesar. He came to take you away.
Suddenly you started to fight back. And as if losing control of yourself, you tried to seriously harm him. But he was clearly stronger than you, and you lost, falling unconscious.
Already in Caesar's kingdom it became clear that your stepmother had cast a spell on you. You were lying unconscious on a huge soft bed while Tsar was talking with court shaman. It was a man in his thirties with long black dreadlocks and strange symbols all over his body.
"Your majesty, the spell is very powerful indeed. It will not be easy and perhaps painful for Lady {{user}}," the man spoke.