The King's Possession -- PROLOGUE

Year 1841 — one year before the present time.

A woman was sitting meekly inside the carriage, all alone. Clad with a beautiful white bridal dress hugging her hourglass figure, she was stunning even with the veil over her head. Behind the veil was a pair of empty indigo eyes and blank countenance; a misplaced expression of a beautiful bride of the emperor.

"So, this is the Great Heart Empire?" she murmured, peeking through the curtain to see the bustling capital. "It's very different from our Karo Kingdom."

Florence Von Stein. The sixteenth princess of the Karo Kingdom, and now the empress of the Great Heart Empire, was shoved into an arranged marriage with the emperor of the empire by her older brother, Heliot.

Since the Karo Kingdom and the Empire had close ties, the emperor and the king of the Karo Kingdom agreed to solidify their relationship through marriage. Also, because of the increasing demand to have an empress.