🌸 1. Reina Akimura.

Age: 24

Title: Heiress of the Akimura Empire

Role: Female Lead

Alias: The Scarlet Empress

Background: Trained from childhood in both imperial etiquette and ruthless strategy, Reina is fluent in six languages, deadly with a tanto blade, and has a doctorate in international finance.

Personality: Cold yet composed in public, calculating, rarely shows emotion—but behind closed doors, she’s fiercely protective of her family and closest friend, Saya.

Abilities: Expert in negotiation, psychological warfare, and martial arts (Katori Shinto-ryu).

Appearance: Long obsidian-black hair, pale porcelain skin, and crimson eyes—a signature of the Akimura bloodline, rumoured to be a mark of divine favour.

Emiko Akimura.

Age: 49

Title: The Matriarch

Role: Reina’s Mother

Background: A former intelligence operative from the Imperial Security Bureau, she married into the Akimura clan and took over internal affairs.

Personality: Elegant, serene, and terrifyingly perceptive. She speaks softly—but when she does, even enemies listen.

Power Base: She controls the clan’s information network, from government agents to street-level informants.

Speciality: Poison, interrogation, diplomacy.

Hiroshi Akimura.

Age: 55

Title: Patriarch of the Akimura Clan, CEO of Akimura Zaibatsu

Role: Reina’s Father

Background: Direct descendant of the Tokugawa Shogunate. Charismatic, ruthless, and respected in both business circles and the criminal underworld.

Personality: Stoic, with a deep voice and a commanding aura. His only softness lies in his daughter, whom he considers his perfect successor.

Power Base: Controls international trade, black-market dealings, and diplomatic ties with Eastern and European mafia alliances.

Aiko Akimura.

Age: 14

Title: The Hidden Blade

Role: Reina’s younger sister

Background: Homeschooled and rarely seen, Aiko is being trained in espionage and cyber warfare. She shows potential as a future strategist.

Personality: Quiet, cunning, and curious. Has a secret fascination with Kael Dragovich, the male lead.

Skills: Hacking, surveillance, infiltration.

Clan History

The Akimura Clan traces its lineage back to the Heian period, when they served as silent advisors and manipulators behind the imperial throne. As history shifted and the samurai era collapsed, the clan proved its resilience by evolving with the times. Rather than fading into obscurity, the Akimuras reemerged in the postwar economy as strategic masterminds, embedding themselves deep within the fabric of modern power structures.

Today, their influence is divided between two faces of the same legacy. Akimura Holdings stands as the clan’s legitimate front—a powerful multinational conglomerate with interests in real estate, cutting-edge technology, and luxury goods. Beneath this polished exterior operates the Scarlet Court, an elusive and ruthless underground network comprising assassins, spies, and political manipulators. Together, these dual entities uphold the clan's age-old command over both light and shadow.

🧧 The family symbol is a striking image: a crimson lotus in full bloom resting atop a golden katana. The lotus, vibrant and delicate, represents grace, inner beauty, and resilience—qualities cultivated through generations within the family. Its crimson hue speaks of passion, legacy, and the blood that has been both shed and honoured in the name of duty.

Beneath the flower lies the golden katana, a weapon forged not only in steel but in tradition and unwavering discipline. It signifies the family's silent strength, their lethal precision, and the unspoken power they wield. Together, the lotus and the katana merge into a symbol of elegance intertwined with deadly resolve—beauty veiling destruction.

Kael Dragovich

Age: 26

Title: Heir of the Dragovich Dynasty

Alias: The Arctic Viper

Kael, the 26-year-old heir of the Dragovich Dynasty, is the embodiment of cold precision and inherited dominance. Raised in a bloodline rooted in imperial legacy and forged in the fires of Eastern Europe's underworld, Kael commands with silence and strikes with strategy. Draped in tailored suits and armed with an intellect as sharp as any blade, he is a sovereign of both boardrooms and battlefields—elegant, lethal, and impossible to predict.

From an early age, Kael was taught not to react, but to calculate. While other children played, he studied languages, combat, espionage, and international law. By fifteen, he negotiated his first arms deal. By twenty-one, he dismantled a crime ring without firing a shot. Every step he takes is deliberate. Every word he speaks is weaponized.

He doesn’t seek attention—he commands it. And when he enters a room, people don’t breathe until he leaves.

The House of Black Thorns: The Dragovich Family

Vincent Dragovich

Age: 58

Title: The Black King

Role: Father of Kael

Vincent is a former military strategist turned global arms magnate. With a mind built for war and a voice rarely raised, he’s known to dismantle dynasties with a glass of vodka in one hand and a dossier in the other. He raised Kael to survive in a world where kings are made in silence—and fall in whispers.

“Loyalty is earned through fear, not affection. Give them reason to fear losing you.”

Mireille Dragovich

Age: 53

Title: The Velvet Widow

Role: Mother of Kael

Born of French and Russian nobility, Mireille is the epitome of poise laced with poison. She manages high society, political ties, and press manipulation with a smile so polished it blinds. Her presence at galas is always strategic, and her words are weapons. It’s said she taught Kael not only how to dance, but how to disarm a man mid-waltz.

“The crown doesn’t weigh heavy on the head. It sharpens the spine.”

Luc Dragovich

Age: 25

Title: The Silver Wolf

Role: Cousin / Right Hand

Luc is Kael’s only peer and closest confidant. Where Kael is cold and calculated, Luc is charismatic and volatile. He handles the dirtier tasks: cleanups, messages, disappearances. But beneath the humor and charm lies a brutal loyalty—Luc would burn a city for Kael without asking why.

“I talk because Kael doesn’t need to. But if I stop talking… you should start running.”

Their Domain:

The Dragovich estate lies deep in the frost-covered outskirts of Saint Petersburg—a gothic fortress built on imperial ruins. Every room carries a legacy of power, every hallway whispers the Dragovich name. From this cold heart of stone, they run a silent empire that stretches from underground networks in Moscow to luxury boardrooms in Zurich and Berlin.

Together, the Dragovich family is not a business empire. They are a silent regime. A bloodline that doesn’t chase power—

They are the reason others chase it.