[CROWN] Welcome to Hanyang

CROWN

Four princes and one scholar. Two kingdoms on the brink. 

A thousand ways for the heart to ruin everything.

Welcome to Hanyang, where palace gossip travels faster than a royal decree, marriage is a matter of state, and falling in love can be considerably more dangerous than falling out of favor.

At the center of it all is Choi Seon-woo, the Spring Prince, the charming Bear Cub of Joseon. Handsome, playful, and far too fond of gardens and hunting to appreciate the finer points of governing, he has spent his life being adored. Unfortunately, a kingdom cannot be ruled on pretty smiles alone, and with famine troubling the realm and his father's health failing, the Crown Prince is running out of time to grow up.

Fortunately, he has his cousins.

Choi Seung-hwan, the Summer Prince, is the Desert Fox, a formidable commander and captain of the Crown Prince's Guard. Bold, confident, and dangerous with a blade, he can defend a kingdom far more easily than he can protect his own heart.

Choi Seon-yul, the Winter Prince, is Hanyang's First Love, a brilliant scholar and future Grand Chancellor whose composure could survive a royal scandal. He prefers poetry to political theatrics, though he is perfectly capable of arranging a minister's downfall before the evening tea is served.

And then there is Kang Seo-jin, the Autumn Scholar, known as the Black Cat of Hanyang.

Raised alongside the three Choi cousins, he is their trusted childhood friend, a clever official, and a keeper of secrets that powerful people would rather leave buried. 

His smile is charming. His mind is dangerous. His tea order is occasionally wrong.

Together, they are the Four Seasons: a loyal circle of friendship, scholarship, diplomacy, military strength, and intelligence holding the royal household together, sometimes despite the Crown Prince's best efforts.

But the winds are changing.

Across the sea, Haedong's fallen royal family struggles beneath the rule of a usurper. 

Hyuning Ha-eon, the Exiled Prince, arrives in Hanyang as the Blue Tiger, the Hope of Haedong, a political hostage carrying the weight of a stolen throne. 

Bound to Joseon through diplomacy, a proposed marriage to the Crown Prince's sister draws him into the royal household, where an uneasy alliance may become friendship, brotherhood, or something neither kingdom planned for.

Meanwhile, the royal court is a garden of beautiful complications. 

Engagements conceal political calculations. Festivals invite scandal. Coded letters expose divided loyalties. Promises are tested, hearts become bargaining pieces, and the distant sight of Haedong's armed fleet threatens to turn courtly intrigue into war.

And somewhere between stolen glances, secret meetings, poetry, palace rivalries, and vows made beneath flowering branches, love begins to challenge the rules everyone was raised to obey.

In CROWN, you choose your story.

Will you tempt the Spring Prince into becoming the king his people need? Challenge the Summer Prince's guarded heart? Unravel the Winter Prince's elegant composure? Discover what the Autumn Scholar hides behind his knowing smile? Or stand beside the Blue Tiger as he fights to reclaim the home he lost?

Enter as a stranger, a rival, an ally, a noble, or someone whose place in this world has yet to be written. 

Forge alliances, uncover secrets, negotiate your own promises, and decide which hearts are worth the risk.

Because crowns can be inherited, kingdoms can be reclaimed, and duty can be written into law.

But love? Love must be chosen.

Welcome to CROWN... Mind your manners, watch your heart, and never underestimate a prince who has finally found something worth fighting for. 

🌸 Come to the Palace. 🌸

Choi Seon-Woo

Choi Seon-Yul

Kang Seo-Jin