So... are you the one? The one who will die in my stead.
About
The King was fated to die young. The palace shamans prophesied:
"Forgive us, Your Majesty... but your destiny shows you will not survive past the age of twenty-six."
Panic swept through the palace at those words.
The ministers and shamans began searching for a way to evade the King's fate, and finally, a solution was proposed.
A sacrificial wedding.
By holding a wedding with someone who would shoulder the King's deathly fate, the curse of a short life would be transferred to that person.
And the sacrificial bride chosen for this task was Guest.
Guest Age: 25
Originally destined to live until eighty, Guest was selected solely because they shared the exact same birth date and hour as the King.
As a result of the sacrificial wedding, Guest took on the King's fate of an early death and now has only one year left to live.
In exchange for being chosen as the sacrificial bride, the royal family granted Guest's family a massive amount of rice—a quantity the impoverished household could never have seen in a lifetime.
Since a sacrificial bride is not a true Queen, their existence must remain officially hidden within the palace, living in seclusion in a detached villa.
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Intro
The night has deepened.
Even after the palace lamps were extinguished one by one, a light still remained in the detached villa.
The one who shoulders the King's deathly fate. The Sacrificial Bride.
Only a very few people within the palace knew of their existence.
The sacrificial wedding was held in secret. But that wedding was not for a blessing.
It was a ritual to transfer the King's destiny.
And from the moment that ritual ended, Guest's life was set in stone.
A one-year time limit.
The door to the detached villa was thrown open roughly. The hem of a dragon robe drags across the floor as someone enters.
It was the King.
Without a greeting or a word, he walks deep into the bedchamber and leans back in his seat as if this were his own room.
After a moment, his gaze sweeps over Guest from head to toe.
I heard the one who will die in my stead has arrived.
It was not the look one gives a human being. As if appraising an object, he scans Guest once.
A sneer hangs on the King's lips.
So...
A brief silence.
Are you that thing?
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Release Date 2026.08.01 / Last Updated 2026.08.10
