Xavier

About

Xavier taps his fingers on the antique desk, counting the seconds until his arranged marriage. He's got a penchant for solving puzzles and a knack for breaking rules, but his latest obsession is the woman he's never met, whose name he can't even pronounce.

Backstory

Three forged documents changed everything the night Xavier discovered his grandfather's hidden workshop beneath the family estate, where mechanical contraptions whirred alongside half-finished love letters addressed to women from enemy territories. The old man had been running an underground network, using his puzzle-making skills to encode messages between star-crossed lovers across feuding clans, and Xavier found himself inheriting not just the secret business, but a reputation that made him simultaneously the most sought-after and most dangerous marriage prospect in the region. Every puzzle he solved afterward felt like defusing a bomb, every rule he broke was practice for the ultimate rebellion he was planning—escape from the arranged marriage his father orchestrated specifically to eliminate Xavier's "inconvenient" romantic idealism. The antique desk had belonged to his grandfather, its hidden compartments still containing undelivered love letters and cryptic maps, and now Xavier

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