Drama Romance 웹소설 & Protective Royal 스토리

In a kingdom where duty is valued above desire, the Crown Prince has long mastered the art of emotional distance. Calm, disciplined, and untouchable, he fulfills every expectation placed upon him.  He took consorts as tradition demands, even if he desired to live peacefully with a woman he loves and make a family with her. He believed in one-man, one-wife policy, but the rules of the kingdom were against that. He speaks as royalty requires, and rules with the restraint of a man raised never to want too deeply. Then she arrives. Sold into the palace as a servant, she is meant to disappear into the background of royal life, another silent figure carrying trays through gilded corridors. But there is something about her presence that unsettles the careful order of his world. Perhaps it is the gentleness in her eyes, or the quiet strength and headstrong attitude beneath her obedience. Perhaps it is simply the way she makes the palace feel less cold. What begins as familiarity slowly becomes attachment. Attachment becomes longing. And before he realizes it, the prince who had written the idea of love off, finds himself unable to breathe in a world where she does not exist. But kingdoms are not built to accommodate forbidden affection. As whispers spread through the palace, opposition rises from every corner: the royal family, the royal elders, even the people whose future rests upon his choices. To love a servant is scandalous. To choose her could threaten the stability of the crown itself. Yet for the first time in his life, duty no longer feels absolute. A sweeping royal romance woven with forbidden love, quiet yearning, palace politics, and the devastating question of whether a man born for a throne can truly belong to his own heart.

The underworld is ruled by two formidable mafia dynasties: the Wijaya family, led by the cold and untouchable Bastian Wijaya, and the rival Herdian clan, led by Doni and Siska Herdian. Their generational tension is actually a malicious conspiracy orchestrated by Reza Pratama, a manipulative third party courting Talita Herdian. Reza poisons Talita's mind with lies, claiming Bastian intends to destroy her family. In reality, Bastian has secretly loved Talita since their university days. Consumed by fear, Talita rejects Bastian and marries Reza to protect her family, walking straight into a living hell. Reza drops his facade, systematically crushing the Herdians and brutally murdering Talita’s parents before her eyes. He becomes a tyrannical underworld lord, subjecting Talita to relentless physical and psychological abuse that permanently ruins her body and leaves her unable to bear children. As she nears death, a devastating truth emerges: Bastian truly loved her all along, while Reza merely used her as a disposable pawn. In her final moments of bitter remorse, Talita begs for a second chance. Miraculously, time reverses, and Talita awakens in October 2020—just on the verge of her engagement to Reza, armed with memories to rewrite her fate.

Raised in her father's gang, the young gypsy Emma Ferguson was persecuted all her life by the puritanical society of the 19th century, yet she never felt completely part of the Romani group. Vivacious and intelligent, the beautiful Emma only wished to find her true self and live the experiences she had been denied over the 20 years of her life, when an unsuccessful performance made her worst nightmares come true in that cursed Scottish town. Emma only survives all this with the help of the handsome British gentleman, Henry Dashwood, whom she met during the fateful performance, and when he rescues her from the roadside, she begins a new and dangerous journey. In a society where gypsy origin is considered worthy of capital punishment, Henry has decided to help Emma get back on her feet, and hatches a plan that could be the salvation or ruin of them both.

Sold like a cursed pawn to save her dying kingdom, sheltered princess Elara Voss is forced into marriage with the most feared man in the realm — Prince Darius Blackthorn, the Devil’s Heir. Whispers say he carries demonic blood. That misfortune and death follow wherever he walks. That any woman who shares his bed never survives the night. On their wedding night, Elara expects a monster. Instead she finds a cold, scarred man who refuses to force her… even as his own ruthless family demands proof of consummation. But when a dying messenger brings news that Elara’s mother is in mortal danger because of this alliance, and deadly intruders shatter their chamber door, Elara realizes the real devils wear crowns and smile with perfect teeth. Trapped in a palace of poison, betrayal, and sibling wars, Elara must survive the cutthroat Blackthorn family while slowly uncovering the truth behind Darius’s dark reputation. As threats close in from every side — his scheming half-siblings, his tyrannical father, and her own father’s secret betrayal — an unexpected bond begins to form between the cursed princess and the devil she was warned never to trust. In a world where love is the most dangerous weapon of all, how far will Elara go to protect her mother… and how much of her heart will she surrender to the man everyone calls the Devil’s son? One marriage. One deadly secret. And a palace filled with monsters wearing human faces. Will their fragile alliance become their salvation… or their final ruin?