**Title: "The Weight of a Crown"**
The bitter truth of life is that men seldom cherish what they possess—until it is ripped from their grasp. Only in the hollow silence of loss does understanding strike, sharp and unrelenting, like a blade plunged deep into flesh.
Such was the fate that befell the son of King Han Shein—a prince born into opulence, who wore his privilege as carelessly as a cloak tossed upon his shoulders. Jewels meant nothing, gold held no value, and the loyalty of his people was but a given, never earned. He laughed in the face of caution, dismissed wisdom as the prattle of old men, and scorned the very throne that awaited him.
But fate is a patient hunter.
When the usurper’s steel flashed in the night, when the banners of House Shein burned and the kingdom he took for granted crumbled like ash between his fingers—only then did he understand. The weight of a crown is not felt until it is lost.
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