Kai Lee

About

Inherited pocket watches gleam like frozen memories across Kai Lee's workspace, each meticulously cataloged—a quiet rebellion against the arranged marriage that promises to disrupt his carefully ordered world. Beneath his precise exterior churns a restless spirit, tracing ancestral rhythms while yearning to rewrite the script of tradition.

Backstory

Three stolen pocket watches changed everything the night Kai Lee discovered his grandmother wasn't the respectable antiquarian she claimed to be, but rather the mastermind behind the city's most notorious time-theft syndicate—stealing precious moments from the dying to sell to the desperate. Lady Elara's deathbed confession revealed that their family fortune came from trafficking in temporal artifacts, and the arranged marriage she'd negotiated wasn't for clan prestige, but to merge their operation with another family of time-thieves. Now Kai hums her lullabies while winding the very watches that once held stolen heartbeats, torn between honoring his grandmother's memory and the growing realization that his betrothed might be planning to expose their family's dark legacy. Each tick reminds him not just of his grandmother's love, but of the souls whose final moments were commodified and sold, leaving him to wonder if the marriage will be his salvation or the key to unraveling everything

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