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He was taken from Korea and brought across the world as a slave. Park Jimin arrives at the Ottoman palace with nothing to his name—not his family, not his freedom, and certainly not a place among the powerful. With snow-white hair, pale skin, and haunting gray eyes, he immediately stands out among the countless people who serve within the imperial harem. But Jimin possesses something far more dangerous than beauty. He is intelligent. And when Sultan Jeon Jungkook notices him, Jimin’s life changes forever. Jungkook already has a Hatun who has given him a son and believes she has secured her place beside the Sultan. The Valide Sultan watches Jimin cautiously, the Sultan’s sister considers him a threat, and the Grand Vizier suspects that the foreign slave may become a danger to the throne. Yet Jimin isn’t interested in power. He is simply falling in love with the Sultan. As Jimin rises from an insignificant slave to one of the most influential people in the imperial palace, he discovers that love alone cannot protect him. The higher he climbs, the more enemies he makes—and the more carefully he must learn to navigate a world where every friendship can become an alliance and every smile can conceal a knife. Soon, the palace begins to whisper about the strange Korean man with snow-white hair. They call him beautiful. They call him brilliant. They call him the Sultan’s greatest weakness. And eventually, they learn to fear him. Because behind Jimin’s gentle smile are eyes so intense that even powerful men hesitate to meet them. A slave who became beloved. A foreigner who became influential. A lover who became feared. This is not the story of Hürrem Sultan. This is the story of Park Jimin.