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Park Jimin has served the Joseon court for twelve years. An omega with a jade collar, he is competent enough to be indispensable and careful enough to be invisible. When the old king died and Jeon Jungkook took the throne, Jimin told himself the ache in his chest was just adjustment. Just transition. Just the reasonable anxiety of serving a king who was brilliant, kind, and entirely inappropriate to have feelings for.
He has managed it well. For three years, he has been formal, distant, and careful.
Then someone begins to court him, quietly and without a name.
Gifts appear. Thoughtful ones. And three months ago, a white plum tree appeared in his courtyard, planted overnight like something out of a folktale.
Jimin does not know who his admirer is. He is too busy worrying about failing suppressants, a growing conspiracy, and why the king has begun paying attention to him in ways that feel dangerous.
Some courtships are subtle. Some loves take twelve years to voice and three months to unravel.