Behind the Palace Walls: The Tyrant’s Captive

The day Xie Yunyan, Ninth Princess of Southern Chen, was captured, the tyrant Helian Xiao clasped black-iron shackles around her ankles before a crowd.

“From this day on, you are my caged bird.”

She didn’t know...

The golden cage was etched with blood-written scriptures, and the one it bound had been consumed by madness for twenty years.

When a secret message about restoring the kingdom collided with ruthless possession, when the general who had been her childhood companion fell in blood at the palace gates...

Helian Xiao stroked the brand on her neck and laughed softly.

“Little Mistress, the wolves failed to kill Xiao Nu back then. Is it your turn to kill him today?”