Gillian
Time passed swiftly. Five years had gone by since I began living outside the palace... five years in which every right due to me as a prince was stripped away. Yet in those years, I learned more than I ever had during all the time I once spent behind marble walls of power.
I saw the naked truth.
How those in power are driven by greed for wealth and authority. How behind polished smiles and sweet promises are hands skilled at taking… and hearts merciless toward the suffering of ordinary people.
And now… I was returning.
Not as an exiled prince, but as a man ready to reclaim everything that had been taken from him. I would change the palace’s rotten policies. I would remove officials drowning in luxury while ordinary citizens were crushed by poverty, forced to work endlessly, so
