The Cruel Emperor’s Bride

You are mine. Not by choice, not by fate-by conquest. By the blood your dynasty spilled and the chains they locked around my people. I claimed you to make you suffer, to watch the last Sun Princess fall at my feet and know your line has finally been undone...

Night Emperor Kaedan takes Ariaxa as his slave to repay an old cruelty with a new one, expecting her to break like every enemy before her. Yet the girl he binds in a rune-collar refuses to shatter. She challenges him, steadies him through the madness he hides, and becomes the one light he cannot extinguish.

In a court built on fear and vengeance, a monster king and his captured princess are forced into a dangerous closeness-one that threatens to unravel his hatred, expose her power, and ignite a forbidden pull neither of them can escape.