The Sun in the Mirror

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Andrea has spent his life isolated and imprisoned within a monastery.

One day, a man he never even knew existed arrives to see him: Duke Fernan, his uncle.

“Your Majesty. I know this must be very confusing, but…”

“Why are you calling me ‘Your Majesty’?”

Alongside the corpse of his twin brother, Michael Andor, the sole Emperor of the Andor Empire, who met his end with his neck snapped.

Two suns will burn the Empire.

Abandoned because of the Great Temple’s prophecy, Andrea was the younger twin.

At his uncle’s insistence that the Empire needs an emperor bearing Fernan blood, he leaves the monastery and becomes the Empire’s puppet emperor.

And then, the one who appears before him is…

Trust me. I’ll get you out of here.

The boy who had been his first love, the one who had once sworn to save him.

Now, he is also his uncle’s only political rival, and the man his twin brother Michael had cherished.

“Duke Valdeck has arrived.”

It was Archiel.

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“Do not blame yourself. I only showed you this so that you would stop being manipulated by Duke Fernan.”

At Kiel’s words, which sounded almost like comfort, Andrea let out a faint laugh.

“Stop being manipulated by him…? Even if I had known what was written in that document, would I really have had any choice but to sign it?”

“…Your Majesty.”

Calling softly to Andrea, Kiel rose from his seat.

Then he knelt on one knee before the self-reproaching emperor and bowed his head.

“Did I not tell you? That I would protect you. That this time, I would save you.”

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Character Information

❤︎ • Gong (Top)
❤︎ • Archiel Valdeck

The only political rival of Duke Fernan, who holds the true power of the Empire.

He carries deep guilt over failing to save his first love when they were children.

While investigating the death of that first love and refusing Emperor Michael’s offer to become his lover,

he begins to realize that the once arrogant and debauched emperor has somehow changed.

❤︎ • Soo (Bottom)
❤︎ • Andrea Andor

A prince abandoned to an estate because of the Great Temple’s prophecy, and the emperor’s twin brother.

On the day he tried to flee the estate hand in hand with his first love, he was dragged from the burning mansion to a monastery, where he spent his childhood isolated and alone.

Though made into a puppet emperor by his uncle, he seeks, with Kiel’s help, to become the Empire’s one true sun.