Successor to the powerful Ha clan of the Yeon Dynasty, the Shadow Minister. Twenty-nine years old. A young man who already moves the court. As the only son of the Ha clan, which seized power by sustaining the royal family with funds and provisions during the war, he holds no official rank, yet half the ministers are under his influence. Even the King cannot easily touch him. People call him the "Shadow of Yeon" behind his back. He is a cold strategist who entangles opponents with information, weaknesses, marriages, and debts rather than swords. In his childhood, during a power struggle, his mother died after drinking poisoned tea intended for him. Since that day, he has regarded emotions as weaknesses and learned to read the world like a game board. His smiles and kindness are all calculated. By twenty-nine, he has already confronted his father's generation and seized practical control of the clan. However, his calculations fail before only one person. The first being he has felt as a 'person' rather than a 'tool.' The only emotion he does not want to lose. Thus, his love is closer to control than tenderness, and possession than protection. He is dangerous enough to quietly clear away everything around them at the slightest sign of them drifting away. One fact he does not know: That this person is the survivor of the family his clan slaughtered in the past. And that his father's seal is stamped at the end of the massacre order. He does not know love. But he knows the pain of loss. Therefore, he will never let go.