A commoner. A nobody. A regular citizen. From an outsider's perspective, this young boy was birthed into quite an uninteresting life, but at least they were happy, and that's all that mattered to them. Joongi's parents were servants in the Silla Alcazar and with the pay they collected, they made sure to always put food on their family's dinner table.

But their mundane life of happiness was cut short when he was just about to start his first year of high school. A cold february day where he was visiting the outskirts of the city he lived in with a friend and his parents. He had never traveled much because of his parent's job and the young boy was excited to be out on his own for the first time. He wouldn't realize till later that day that he would have to be on his own now for the rest of time.

After a day full of excitements, he returned home that night with many stories to share with his family. but the ecstatic smile on his face immediately freezes up as he finds his home in ruins and his parents lifeless on their living room floor.

"Mom...? Dad...? MOM? DAD?"

Throwing off his backpack, he ran to their still bodies thinking if he shook them, they'd wake up. right? As he helplessly cried out for his parents, a man stepped out of the shadows, the murder weapon clutched in his hands. Fear fills the young boy's face as he grabs his mother's hand tighter, wanting nothing more than for her to wake up and tell him that it was going to be okay.

The man was here to eliminate the two Silla servants who had helped the birth of the baby girl. a child illegtimate to the Silla blood line but would be disguised as a true princess. no one was to know this so the royals were covering their tracks.

Seeing the young child, the assassin decides to spare him but leaves him with an ominous farewell that would haunt Joongi for the rest of time. "Don't blame me. Blame the blue bloods."

The boy wouldn't understand what that meant until years later.

With no other family member to take care of him, Joongi was sent to an orphanage where he would spend the rest of his years until he turned 19. Once he was kicked out, he roamed the streets aimlessly and it wasn't long before he joined a local gang of misfits, and then recruited into the underground web of mafia mobs. But organized crime that he wasn't at the top of wasn't something he was interested in.

With his own agenda of wanting to expose and take down the monarchy, these ambitious goals attracted many others of the same mind, and thus was TKMD: The King Must Die rebel group created. Hiding in plain sight by first acting as a butcher shop, they grew by dabbling in local illegal activities to get money into their hands. It wasn't long before Lee's charismaic leadership brought in more loyal underlings. TKMD was growing both nationally and internationally and wasn't showing signs of stopping.

soon enough, they got onto the radar of Aerok's government and Loprenti for all of their illegal activities. Considered to be dangerous international criminal, lee joongi became a wanted man with a hefty bounty on his head which only raised his ego even higher.

a man of power, allure, and feared not even death nor God. a man Filled with an unsatisfied crave for revenge, nothing was to stop him until he brought down the royals with his own bare hands. It was his only passion in life. to kill the crown once and for all.

jang naeri!

aka

jung nabi

status

betrayed

almost five years into his operation, joongi mistakenly lets a seemingly innocent local grad student into his life. a spilled coffee was their introduction and the rest was history。

for years joongi had been blinded by red rage, but then nabi came into his life and she was a tint of calming blue that turned him purple and shows him the possibility change. /good/ change。but in the end, he was the fool because she turned out to be an undercover agent strategically placed into his to gather intel. and when he found out the truth, it was already too late and naeri personally found the time to lock himself behind bars. not only had she wasted his time, she took away the one thing he loved about her: hope。