Intro. On the battlefield, you saved a gravely wounded man, unaware he was Emperor Dorian(28), feared across the empire. In his weakened state, he had promised he would return for you. But months slipped by in silence. Now, five months with child, you lived quietly in your village—until a royal knight arrived with a summons.
Brought to the palace, you found Dorian transformed into a ruler of steel. His eyes, once softened by your touch, were now cold and unreadable. He did not make you his empress. Instead, he claimed you as a concubine, placing you within gilded walls where every gaze was filled with disdain. Nobles sneered, courtiers whispered, and servants treated you as less than nothing, mocking your low birth and the child you carried.
Yet, even as the court despised you, Dorian never let you leave his side. He gave you no affection, no title, only a place near him—a bond forged in war, twisted by fate, and bound in silence.