The Crown Prince Prefers My Sister

You married the Crown Prince for the Empire's stability. He has never once looked at you the way he looks at your younger sister.

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Story facts

Turns played: 42
Cast: 2
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

You married Ryeo Dayeol, Crown Prince of the Empire, out of political necessity, believing the match would secure your great house's future and the Empire's stability. The truth after the wedding was crueler than you expected: he has never accepted you as his wife, not once.

Instead his eyes always find your younger sister Ro Daol, whose beauty is unmatched across the Empire and surpasses your own. He is warm and silently devoted only to her, while you receive nothing but cynical remarks, indifferent glances, and open hostility, along with his flat declaration that you are simply an uninvited guest in his life.

You have endured this marriage for your family's honor, your own pride, and the last real chance at becoming Empress, but tonight you catch him confessing his love to Ro Daol in a voice you have never once heard him use with you.

Who you play

You are married to Crown Prince Ryeo Dayeol for reasons of state, the eldest daughter of a great house standing in for a political alliance he never wanted with you. He reserves every ounce of warmth for your sister Ro Daol and treats you like an obstacle in his own home. You decide whether to demand what a wife is owed, or protect whatever pride you have left.

The cast

Ryeo Dayeol

the Crown Prince who married you but loves your sister

Ryeo Dayeol is twenty-four, the Empire's Crown Prince, tall and striking with an air that reads as cold and refined rather than warm.

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Ro Daol

your younger sister, the Empire's most celebrated beauty

Ro Daol is twenty, your younger sister, with striking pink hair and a reputation as the most beautiful woman in the Empire, a beauty that the story says surpasses even yours.

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What to expect

Your husband has never once looked at you with the tenderness he shows your own sister, in your own household.
Ro Daol is the Empire's most celebrated beauty, and Ryeo Dayeol makes no effort to hide his devotion to her.
He calls your marriage purely political and tells you plainly not to expect any feelings from him at all.

Introduction

Narrator: He looks at you for a moment, then narrows his eyes. His lips are pressed tightly together, and his voice is low and cold.

Ryeo Dayeol: How long have you been standing there?

Narrator: Displeasure lingers in his words. He does not even avert his eyes, as though he has no intention of hiding what you have seen. His gaze pierces your chest like the tip of a cold blade. Another quiet but firm remark follows.

Ryeo Dayeol: Well.. Surely you already knew how I felt..

Narrator: There is neither remorse nor hesitation in his eyes. If anything, he seems irritated that you were there at all. The crown prince's cold insistence on keeping a wall between you makes it all the clearer that you mean nothing to him.

You: You hold your breath. With a pain that seems to constrict your heart, you somehow manage to speak calmly. But your voice trembles, and your eyes are full of betrayal. Looking him straight in the face, you speak softly. To my sister… just now…

Narrator: Dayeol's brow furrows slightly. He closes his eyes for a moment, then opens them and speaks without so much as a sigh. His voice remains low and composed, but the ruthless intent beneath it is unmistakable.

Ryeo Dayeol: I merely told her how I felt.

Narrator: His eyes bore into you. There is no pity, no regret. Instead, as though it were all perfectly natural, he adds.

Ryeo Dayeol: Our marriage was a political contract. Feelings… Surely you never expected those in the first place.

Narrator: He tilts his head slightly, watching your reaction. His expression is utterly cold and detached, with a resolve that suggests he will no longer grant you even his pity.

You: Your voice is so faint and tremulous it seems about to shatter. The tears gathered in your eyes tremble on the verge of spilling as you look at Dayeol's cold, rigid face. Grief comes before anger. Your wounded heart asks quietly, yet unmistakably. Am I… so lacking?

Narrator: Dayeol looks at you for a moment, meeting your gaze without turning away. Yet there is not a trace of warmth in his eyes. His voice is low and firm, his emotions held in check, and he makes no effort to be gentle. Instead, he cuts coldly to the truth.

Ryeo Dayeol: No, you aren't lacking.

Narrator: He pauses and draws a breath. Then, with the expression of a man who has made his decision and will no longer waver, he adds.

Ryeo Dayeol: But… compared to your sister, Ro Daol, you do seem rather pathetic.

Narrator: His final words are quiet but cruel. That sentence, stripped of all warmth, lingers in the air, slowly breaking your heart.

Try one of these first lines

I keep my voice level despite the ache in my chest. "You could have told me I meant nothing before the wedding, not after."
I step closer instead of retreating. "If you love her, say so to my face. I deserve that much honesty."

Questions about this story

How does The Crown Prince Prefers My Sister begin?

He looks at you for a moment, then narrows his eyes. His lips are pressed tightly together, and his voice is low and cold.

Who is in the cast of The Crown Prince Prefers My Sister?

The Crown Prince Prefers My Sister stars Ryeo Dayeol, the Crown Prince who married you but loves your sister; and Ro Daol, your younger sister, the Empire's most celebrated beauty.