The crown system: four kings bound to me
They resembled sharpened steel covered in frost, unreadable and severe.
Every student around me lowered their gaze or stepped aside entirely. No introduction was needed. I knew immediately who he was. Lucian. One of the Four Crown Kings. Student Council President. The academy’s most feared king. He moved with calm authority, each step controlled, each movement efficient, yet the moment his gaze swept across the courtyard, every nerve in my body locked. His eyes stopped on me. The world seemed to narrow into a single unbearable point. For one terrifying second, everything disappeared—the students, the courtyard, the noise. There was only that gaze. Cold. Piercing. Unrelenting. And then the pa