His Ballet Captive

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His Ballet Captive is a royal BL romance, and the copy gives the full arc without embarrassment. Hayes is a talented poor ballet dancer who injures his ankle right before the royal audition. The injury is what puts him in the path of Crown Prince Stellan. The prince's response is the dark engine of the story: he forces Hayes to sign a lifelong exclusive partner contract, locks him in the palace, and claims him as a possession. Fallon, a jealous noble lady and Stellan's fiancée, constantly tortures Hayes and eventually hires killers to eliminate him. Though trapped and hurt, Hayes never yields, and that refusal is what bends the prince. Stellan gradually falls deeply in love, and the copy measures the fall in what he gives up: the engagement, the throne rights, the royal traditions, all abandoned for Hayes. The climax is staged at the century ballet gala. Stellan rushes onto the stage to dance with the injured Hayes and comes out for him in public. Fallon's assassination attempt fails, the king concedes, and the ending lands with Stellan ascending the throne and crowning Hayes, promising eternal companionship amid ballet and royal glory. Thirty-one episodes. What the listing keeps vague is how much of the captivity gets reckoned with at the end, since the finale reads as restoration rather than accounting, but that's the copy's framing and I'm reporting it as given.

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