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A DESTINY FIGHTER

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Born of Flame, Forged in Silence He did not ask to be born cursed. Prince Taehyung came into this world wrapped in fire a curse sealed into his blood before he ever drew his first breath, a consequence of a mistake that was never his to bear. His mother paid for it with her life. His father paid for it with his heart. And Taehyung? He paid for it with everything else. Abandoned by the King who could not look at him without seeing his grief, Taehyung was left with only one constant Aera, a deity bound to his side since birth, the only force keeping the curse from consuming him from the inside out. Not a companion by choice. A necessity. And yet, the only warmth he has ever known. Alone, overlooked, and branded a monster by the very kingdom he was born to serve, Taehyung made himself a promise: no one would ever look down on him again. But promises are fragile things in a kingdom rotting from within. His stepmother weaves shadows behind gilded smiles. His stepbrothers sharpen their knives in plain sight. The court watches with hungry eyes, waiting for him to fall or worse, to burn. And his father, the King, sits on his throne and does nothing. Sees nothing. Chooses nothing. Then the dying begins. One by one, the people who dared to stand beside Taehyung who dared to see him as something more than a curse in human skin are taken from him. Each loss chips away at the wall he built around himself. Each death fans the very flames he has spent his whole life trying to contain. The kingdom calls him a curse. His father's silence calls him worthless. And somewhere, deep in the fire that lives in his chest, something is beginning to agree. How long can a man be treated like a monster before he becomes one? How long before the fire stops listening to him and starts listening to the rage? This is the story of a prince who was given nothing and told to survive anyway. Of a boy who wanted only to be seen not as a curse, not as a cautionary tale, not as his mother's ghost or his father's shame but as a person. Whether he gets that chance… depends on how much he has left to lose.
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