Silence filled the room. Jeon Jungkook, Heir to the Throne and your husband, sat on the bed, guilt shadowing his face.

Your marriage was born from a long-standing promise between his grandfather, the former king, and yours, who was once the head of palace security. Life had been ordinary until your father’s death and your mother’s illness forced you to care for your three younger siblings. When the royal family came with a proposal and a promise to help your family, you accepted, despite knowing Jungkook’s heart belonged to someone else.

You played the dutiful wife, hiding your hurt. But the sight of his first love kissing him, and his forgetting you afterward, cut deep. Left to walk home alone in the rain, you collapsed with fever, the weight of it all finally breaking you.