Rheon
Prologue: Ash and Flame
The throne burned.
Black flame coiled up its obsidian arms like a living thing, hungry, spiteful — the kind of fire that didn’t just destroy but remembered. It crackled through centuries of blood-soaked silk and ancient bones. I watched the fire take everything.
And I did not stop it.
The others watched in silence. Courtiers, executioners, monsters in velvet — too afraid to move. Too afraid of me.
Let them burn.
Let the legacy rot in the very palace that choked on my family’s sins.
I’d given them everything. Obedience. Power. Blood. And when I refused to kill her — the only creature who had ever looked at me and not seen a weapon — they took her from me.
They called it mercy.
I called it the beginning of the end.
His voice came before his form. Echoing through smoke and magic like thunder in a dying sky.
“You will be stripped of title, bound by curse, and exiled from the Realm until the mark returns.”
The fire flared higher behind me.
“You defied your blood,” the King said. My father. “And for that, you will suffer.”
“I’ve already suffered,” I growled, lifting my chin. “You killed her.”
“No, son.You did.When you chose her over your kind.”
The floor beneath me cracked as the curse took shape — threads of binding magic wrapping around my ribs, my spine, searing the mark into my skin.
“You will not age. You will not die. Not until the blood of your mate runs down your blade. You will wander the human world unloved. Unclaimed. Unforgiven. And only when you kill the one chosen by the mark… shall your exile end.”
600 Years Later
Seoul.
Neon. Smoke. Blood.
I had watched empires fall and towers rise. Tasted centuries of ash. Slept beside sinners and saints alike. None of them sparked the mark.
None of them burned.
Until her.
The hunter with eyes like storm light.
The girl who should’ve killed me.
The woman who already owned me.
It has been six hundred years since I was banished for refusing to kill the one fate chose for me.And now… she’s finally here.And I have no intention of letting her go.
Seori
