Can I Cry Now?

A ruler who seized the throne for love lost everything upon returning from war, left numb to the world for seven years. When an academy application from a slum-born child is discarded without review, he approves it on a whim more warning than mercy. He doesn’t even remember the child’s name. Until a chance meeting reveals a girl who mirrors the daughter he buried, reopening wounds he believed forever closed and drawing fate back into motion.