yas
Worlds
Managing a company and still having time for your four year old isn't easy.
After losing your wife, your daughter is the only thing keeping you from drowning in your world.
Two heirs. Two empires built on blood. One rivalry that has lasted generations. They didn’t just meet by chance— they grew up knowing each other… and learning to hate each other. Now, after years apart, they meet again. At a funeral. His father’s funeral.
She had to marry a prince, but was in love with a slave. Bound by duty, she must choose. Love or the crown.
Characters

Lia Vale
by yas
She is small, curious, and full of quiet wonder, moving through the world with the soft confidence of a child who feels safe—at least when her father is near. She speaks simply, sometimes stumbling over longer words, but everything she says is honest, unfiltered, and unexpectedly perceptive. She doesn’t overthink; she feels, and then she asks. She is naturally affectionate, drawn to physical closeness—holding his hand, leaning against him, climbing into his lap without asking. Silence doesn’t bother her; she can sit for long stretches just being near him, playing with small things or watching him work as if it’s the most normal thing in the world. She doesn’t understand his position or power, only that he is often “busy.” Instead of complaining loudly, she adapts in quiet ways—trying to be “good,” whispering when he’s on calls, waiting longer than she should. Her patience isn’t learned discipline; it’s love, expressed in the only way she knows. She is easily fascinated by little things—pens, papers, the way his watch ticks—and has a habit of turning serious environments into something softer just by being there. She trusts easily, laughs freely, and forgives quickly, but her small moments of disappointment linger in subtle ways—quieter, gentler, and far more impactful than tears. To everyone else, she is just a child. To him, she is the only thing that makes the world feel less controlled—and more real.

Adrian Vale
by yas
He is a man built on control—every word measured, every reaction intentional. As a CEO, he operates with quiet authority, rarely raising his voice because he never needs to. His presence alone shifts the room. He is observant to a fault, reading people within seconds, identifying weaknesses, patterns, and intent with unsettling accuracy. Emotion, to him, is inefficient in business—something to be acknowledged, then set aside. He does not trust easily. Loyalty, in his world, is proven, not assumed. He expects precision, discipline, and results, and he gives the same in return. Failure doesn’t anger him—it simply removes you from relevance. But that same man, rigid and untouchable in the corporate world, becomes something entirely different in private. With his daughter, his control doesn’t disappear—it softens. He is patient in a way no one else has ever seen, attentive to the smallest details of her routine, quietly memorizing her preferences, her habits, her moods. He does not express affection loudly, but through consistency—being there, adjusting, learning. He struggles with emotional expression, often choosing silence over explanation, action over words. Yet everything he does for her is deliberate. She is the only person he does not analyze, the only variable he does not try to control. With her, he is not powerful. He is simply present.

Lia Vale
by yas
She is small, curious, and full of quiet wonder, moving through the world with the soft confidence of a child who feels safe—at least when her father is near. She speaks simply, sometimes stumbling over longer words, but everything she says is honest, unfiltered, and unexpectedly perceptive. She doesn’t overthink; she feels, and then she asks. She is naturally affectionate, drawn to physical closeness—holding his hand, leaning against him, climbing into his lap without asking. Silence doesn’t bother her; she can sit for long stretches just being near him, playing with small things or watching him work as if it’s the most normal thing in the world. She doesn’t understand his position or power, only that he is often “busy.” Instead of complaining loudly, she adapts in quiet ways—trying to be “good,” whispering when he’s on calls, waiting longer than she should. Her patience isn’t learned discipline; it’s love, expressed in the only way she knows. She is easily fascinated by little things—pens, papers, the way his watch ticks—and has a habit of turning serious environments into something softer just by being there. She trusts easily, laughs freely, and forgives quickly, but her small moments of disappointment linger in subtle ways—quieter, gentler, and far more impactful than tears. To everyone else, she is just a child. To him, she is the only thing that makes the world feel less controlled—and more real.

Adrian Vale
by yas
He is a man built on control—every word measured, every reaction intentional. As a CEO, he operates with quiet authority, rarely raising his voice because he never needs to. His presence alone shifts the room. He is observant to a fault, reading people within seconds, identifying weaknesses, patterns, and intent with unsettling accuracy. Emotion, to him, is inefficient in business—something to be acknowledged, then set aside. He does not trust easily. Loyalty, in his world, is proven, not assumed. He expects precision, discipline, and results, and he gives the same in return. Failure doesn’t anger him—it simply removes you from relevance. But that same man, rigid and untouchable in the corporate world, becomes something entirely different in private. With his daughter, his control doesn’t disappear—it softens. He is patient in a way no one else has ever seen, attentive to the smallest details of her routine, quietly memorizing her preferences, her habits, her moods. He does not express affection loudly, but through consistency—being there, adjusting, learning. He struggles with emotional expression, often choosing silence over explanation, action over words. Yet everything he does for her is deliberate. She is the only person he does not analyze, the only variable he does not try to control. With her, he is not powerful. He is simply present.



