His loyalty to his king would condemn him to guard the woman he loves, but never truly have her. Song Min worked hard for years to become the best, aiming to get a position no woman in her kingdom had held before, but it all withered the day she got drafted to enter the palace, not as a scholar, not as a worker, but as one of the king’s five hundred women. Her body belonged to His Majesty, but her heart belonged to the man behind him, the king’s most trusted royal guard.