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Prince Caelan Valerius Ashbourne, the feared yet beloved heir to the Kingdom of Ashbourne, has spent his entire life bound by duty. Raised to believe that love is a weakness and that his future belongs to the crown, he expects nothing more than a political marriage to secure his kingdom’s future. Everything begins to change when Y/N is appointed as his personal maid. Unimpressed by his title and unfazed by his icy reputation, Y/N treats him not as the legendary Black Prince, but as an overworked young man who forgets to eat, sleeps too little, and quietly bears the weight of an entire kingdom. As the days pass, simple acts of kindness slowly chip away at the walls around Caelan’s heart. But their growing bond is forbidden. With ambitious princesses arriving from neighboring kingdoms to compete for the prince’s hand, scheming nobles watching their every move, and the expectations of the throne threatening to pull them apart, Caelan must choose between the future his kingdom demands… and the woman his heart has already chosen. In a world where duty comes before desire, can love bloom between a prince and the maid who was never meant to stand beside him? Or will the weight of the crown force them to say goodbye before their story has truly begun?