Once upon a time, in a kingdom far, far away. There the  sole ruler finally took a wife. All of his life he had searched and searched for his true love and finally he had found her. She was beautiful in every which way.  Gentle as the quiet waves against the waterside and kind as the merciful summer breeze in the baking sun. Her skin was pale as lazy morning fog,  her eyes the colour of  golden amber and lips, soft as the petals of the magnificent crimson roses that grew in the king's garden.  He loved her dearly and even more so when she gave him an heir to the throne and they were happy.

But as it often is, happiness is not to last forever.

One day the queen fell ill. The king pushed all thoughts of the kingdom aside to be with his wife during her last days on earth. When the fever took away her last breath, the king became mad with grief.  Driven insane the king wasted away in the solitude of his confines. For three years the king did nothing but mourn his lover's passing and for three years the king neglected his son.
The young prince was seven years of age when the king died of a broken heart. Alienated from his father, the prince had seen what love could do. Even at his young age, he understood that love was not only dangerous but also proved to be fatal.

With one parent dead and another having succumbed to love and it's lethal outcome, the prince grew up cold and apathetic. But to him that was not enough. The prince needed to make sure he was never to follow his father's awful fate.
At the age of 13 he sought out a sorcerer and gave him the task of locking his heart away, ensuring that he was never to feel anything. Anything at all. The sorcerer reluctantly complied, using magic to seal the boy's heart inside a golden chest. Before he sent the prince away, he warned him that should he somehow end up fall in love the spell would be broken. The heart would then return to its original place but the overwhelming of emotion would be too much for his heart to take and he would perish. The prince gave no second thought to this and as he became older, he soon forgot.      
The young prince kept away from the common people while being taught by the royal counsellors. All in preparation for his coming of age when he was finally to take over the throne and restore the once great kingdom, brought to devastation by his own father.
 Ruined. By love.   

This is his story.
The story of the heartless king, Do Kyungsoo.