To inherit her father’s mortal throne, Princess Y/N must survive a mandatory year at the Scholomance of the Iron Rose—a rain-slicked gothic citadel where human royals and vampire nobility study under a razor-thin peace. The catch? The immortal elite run the academy. Fail a single nocturnal course, and your kingdom’s sovereignty is legally forfeited to the Vampire Empire. Y/N expects a political nightmare, but she doesn’t expect her professor for Vampiric Law & Anatomy to be Crown Prince Lucius himself. Four centuries older, terrifyingly brilliant, and utterly cold, Lucius views mortals as fragile playthings. But when Y/N publicly challenges his philosophy in a packed lecture hall, the dynamic shifts into a suffocating, hyper-fixated game of cat and mouse. Summoned to mandatory "private tutoring" at 3:00 AM in his obsidian tower, Y/N must match wits with an ancient predator who holds the fate of her crown in his hands. He claims he is teaching her how to survive his kind. In reality, he is slowly untying the ancient knots of courtship, orchestrating a master plan to make her his future wife and queen.