Kingmaker: A Hidden Promise
Description
At 6 years old, Seulgi meets the eldest daughter of the War God General, Bae Joohyun. At age 10, Seulgi meets the Seventh Prince, Son Seungwan. On their 16th birthday Seulgi drunkenly makes a promise to Seungwan, "Wan-ah, I promise, I'll make you King." Turning 18, Seulgi witnesses the wedding of the two she cherishes most; the one she serves and the one who owns her heart.
Chapters: 74
Released: June 20, 2023 - March 1, 2024
Updating: Tuesday, Friday
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Starring: Bae Joohyun and Kang Seulgi
Disclaimer: This work is pure fiction. The characters, places, organizations, and events that appear are not related to historical facts and are products of the author's imagination.
Foreword
The daughter of a general, who discovers something as important as fulfilling her duties for her family's honor, and an imperial guard, willing to do whatever it takes to keep her promise, meets a prince who wants nothing to do with the throne.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Prologue: Those who play with fire gets burnt.
Chapter 2: Meeting you is my hardest to forget memory.
Chapter 3: Heaven’s arrangement.
Chapter 4: Man cannot be judged by looks, seas cannot be measured by the cup.
Chapter 5: Oath in a Sea of Blood.
Chapter 6: Wan–ah, I promise, I’ll make you king.
Chapter 7: She who cannot agree with her enemy is controlled by them.
Chapter 8 : Come and go like a shadow, appear and disappear like a ghost.
Chapter 9: Those who sacrifice their conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.
Chapter 10: Wandering Troubles.
Chapter 11: Haste will not get one anywhere.
Chapter 12: Gold is easy to get, a close friend is harder to find.
Chapter 13: A friend in need is a friend indeed.
Chapter 14: To have missed you by a hair’s breadth.
Chapter 15: In hardship, we see true friendship.
Chapter 16: If something is under lock and key, it is stored very securely.
Chapter 17: Making a thousand decisions, even the wise will make a mistake.
Chapter 18: A trouble shared is a trouble halved.
Chapter 19: You can't expect both ends of a sugar cane are as sweet.
Chapter 20: The flesh and blood of people.
Chapter 21: To draw the sword of time.
Chapter 22: It is not so easy to forget the past.
Chapter 23: With love, water is enough but without love, food doesn't satisfy.
Chapter 24: A day of sorrow can be longer than a month of joy.
Chapter 25: How much you reap, how much you sow.
Chapter 26: To build, inherit and protect.
Chapter 27: Like adding wings to a tiger.
Chapter 28: A Wolf in Sheep’s clothing.
Chapter 29: To stir the grass and startle the snake.
Chapter 30: As distance tests a horse's strength, time reveals a person's heart.
Chapter 31: Beating and scolding is the emblem of love.
Chapter 32: Climbing a tree to catch a fish.
Chapter 33: A sin to touch the belongings of a sleeping tiger.
Chapter 34: Throw a rock in a well to finish someone drowning in it.
Chapter 35: Loyalty is the highest virtue under heaven.
Chapter 36: When you catch someone’s heart, you will never be apart.
Chapter 37: To challenge against the heavens and earth.
Chapter 38: It takes more than one cold day for the river to freeze three feet deep.
Chapter 39: Even if the seas should run dry and the rocks crumble.
Chapter 40: Child’s play of a martial artist prodigy.
Chapter 41: Dance of the Butterfly Lovers.
Chapter 42: May the moon and stars bear witness.
Chapter 43: All encounters in life are reunions after a long time apart.
Chapter 44: The surging torrent of love.
Chapter 45: A happiness shared is a happiness doubled.
Chapter 46: If the parent is a tiger, then the child will also be a tiger.
Chapter 47: A swooned heart and a guilty consciousness.
Chapter 48: A little hamster enters the dragon’s den.
Chapter 49: Some sacrifices are inevitable.
Chapter 50: The dragon traps the tiger.
Chapter 51: There are more ways than one to protect.
Chapter 52: A city like no other.
Chapter 53: The North Military Wolfsbane Army.
Chapter 54: The wife seeks a concubine.
Chapter 55: Heart of the Seventh Prince.
Chapter 56: A maid in the barracks.
Chapter 57: The culprit leaves a clue.
Chapter 58: Fighting poison with torture.
Chapter 59: Weaving a heart of lies.
Chapter 60: The next player in this endless game of Go.
Chapter 61: Those who calculate greatly will win, those who calculate only a little will lose.
Chapter 62: The demise of an Imperial Deputy Commander of the Royal Palace Guards.
Chapter 63: Lord Bae’s one and only disciple takes off.
Chapter 65: Return to the Past.
Chapter 66: Our secret weapon.
Chapter 67: An empire of warriors.
Chapter 68: Lost Love and Lost Food.
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