The Sugar That Sweetened His Fate

I was born with a strange ability.
Good people smell sweet.
Bad people smell foul.
Only the emperor—feared as cruel and merciless—smells bitter.
Everyone kneels before him in terror.
I give him sugar.
They say he is a tyrant who rose from blood and betrayal.
They say loving him means ruin.
But I can smell the truth.
Behind the throne is a man raised without love, poisoned by power, and taught from childhood that he was born to be discarded.
While the court plots, consorts scheme, and fate tightens its grip, I do the only thing I know how to do—
I stay.
A quiet, tender historical romance about innocence that disarms cruelty, sweetness that survives poison, and a love that slowly turns bitterness into warmth.
Some destinies are rewritten not by power…
but by kindness.