Feared by the kingdom and suffocated by the crown, Prince Y/N has spent his entire life hiding behind perfect composure and carefully controlled silence. Ren, the royal family’s jester, has spent his life mocking everything the monarchy stands for. What begins as harmless teasing between the emotionally distant crown prince and the kingdom’s dangerously observant jester slowly becomes something far more complicated beneath candlelit halls, royal expectations, and the weight of a kingdom neither of them truly feels free within. After all, falling for the future king was never meant to happen.