Sakura_Charmash

First born princess of Goryeo is promised to Silla in marriage. What has begun as a promise between families becomes a pact sealed in blood when her betrothed is mysteriously killed. Now what binds Seol, the lady Ha In of Goryeo to Silla is a blood debt – to turn away from it would be to topple the country into irreparable chaos.
Yet, her heart lies with another.
Raised from obscurity of illegitimacy, fate of concubine - born last son of northern Kang clan rests on the emperor’s grace. However, being tasked with the guardianship of the imperial princess is the last of his worries. In the whirlwind of emotions that she brings along, it is not just his title that is at stake, but his heart and a secret that he had brought from a grave of a different time.
Theirs is a fate from an age gone by, but a love impossible to attain. Theirs is a story written upon dying stars.
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From inside: 
The snow caressed him in a way she yearned to; fluttering against his lashes, tangled up in his hair. She has always felt home in north, in the valleys that filled themselves with her namesake and with this man beside he, arrows slung over his shoulder and laughter in his eyes. Silla and her betrothed would never take that place.
Seol opens her mouth; it is now or never.
“Don’t say it,” he cuts her off, a hand stretched out for a lonely snowflake to perch upon. It turns translucent against his roughed palm.
“My hand isn’t made for snowflakes,” he sounds joyous, as he always does – when she is weeping within. His eyes remain resolutely elsewhere.
“I’ve been summoned to the garrison,” he continues in that same flat tone. “My last duty here will be to deliver your highness to your betrothed.”
She is unaware of the tear that has escaped, until an ice cold thumb brushes it off.
“Don’t cry,” he says then and she sees the laughing spark in his eyes for what it truly is; longing. “It breaks my heart.”
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Snow n' Starlight

Yong does not enjoy the prospect of being sent to Silla, even in a position of power. Seol had not managed to make him divulge what had transpired between him and the Silla forces apart from what she had already witnessed in the holding cells of Songak but shadows hung over him, diminishing the light in his eyes, sucking out the confidence that had once filled him with so much life and leaving him feeling like a shell of her beloved brother. Her brother had emerged from the ordeal as a stranger who made her skin crawl.

Seo and Yong had been two constants of her life, apart from her father. Seol felt adrift and cut from all three of them. Silla looming ever closer would only distance them further. That thought had made her suffocate, choke on crisp morning air. She is quite out of sync with her surroundings when Yong grabs her elbow abruptly, almost yanking her off her saddle.

"Nui," he says, aghast. "Where is your focus?"

Tenor of love