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Xu Minghao is nobody special.
He is a Chinese international student in Korea, juggling:
a master’s degree in art
a part-time barista job
quiet loneliness
the daily exhaustion of simply belonging nowhereHis life is small but carefully balanced.
Until one morning, on a rare day off, he helps an elderly woman who has fallen during a nature hike.
She is opinionated. Sharp-tongued. Warm in a strange, piercing way.
and
She insists he is too thin.
Before they part, she smiles and says something absurd:
“You should marry my grandson.”
Minghao laughs.
Thinks it’s a joke.
And walks away.
The next day, he receives a royal order.