The Principal Wife

For four agonizing years, Yun Sohyeon has lived in the shadow of a loveless marriage. As the principal wife of King Yeongchin Mun Gukhyeon—a formidable warlord whose name strikes fear across the realm—she expected duty, if not affection. Instead, she endured relentless humiliation, neglected entirely while her husband elevated his concubines above her. Untouched and isolated within the palace walls, Sohyeon resigned herself to a painful certainty: the king despised her. When Gukhyeon finally returns from the battlefield, his first command shatters her fragile composure. He demands that she share his bed, leaving Sohyeon bracing for further cruelty and inevitable heartbreak. Yet what unfolds defies everything she believed about their marriage. Rather than cold indifference, she is met with an overwhelming, fiercely guarded passion. The fearsome warlord who ignored her for years reveals a startling truth—he has been quietly consumed by longing for her all along, harboring a deep devotion he kept hidden until now.