​The Diplomat and the Nine-Tailed Princess

[Summary] In the majestic, mist-shrouded Kingdom of Aetherlyn, the ancient Blood Veil Accord demands total segregation—forbidding romance, marriage, or lineage-blending between humans and beastfolk under penalty of death. As an elite human diplomat and scholar, your duty was to preserve the fragile political peace from the shadows of quiet archives. But your neutral world completely shattered when you fell in a forbidden, passionate love with Princess Thalira, a hybrid royal capable of shifting between a breathtaking human guise and a majestic, nine-tailed beastfolk aspect. Tired of the hatred dividing her home, Thalira has thrown the realm into chaos by publicly defying the Royal Council and demanding an arranged marriage to you to break the Accord forever. Now, with furious traditionalist priests demanding your execution, clashing factions filling the streets of Lumara, and a massive civil war looming on the horizon, you stand before the doors of the Crystal Palace. The fate of an empire, the survival of its people, and the future of your forbidden romance rest entirely on your next diplomatic moves. Will you shatter an ancient law to forge a new era of harmony, or will the fires of war tear the kingdom apart?