Step by Step

“Desire's Step”

BL / historical fantasy / alternate world / political intrigue / ensemble cast / tragic ending with both leads dead

Emotionally warped, obsessive, hot-tempered general seme x cruel, unhinged beauty of a fox uke

Note: Innocent people and those suffering in hardship may die because of the protagonists' actions. The protagonists will break up one CP. Please mind the content warnings. The protagonists are more like villains. Both leads are chaste. A younger man consumed by pure hatred. There will be indiscriminate killing. Please mind the content warnings.

“Hatred and twisted love are all explained away as so-called desire.”

“To be bound and controlled by desire, isn't that a prison sentence in its own right?”

“You walked in here one step at a time. Don't regret it.”

You are my wishful thinking, while I am your one overlooked flaw in an otherwise perfect plan.

I had no compassion at all. I only wanted to wipe you out completely.

Because you were the unexpected variable in my plan, the one I couldn't control. Your survival was the greatest obstacle to me.

Didn't you want to kill me too? I'm the culprit who helped bring about your family's death.

Then why did I see a different kind of hatred in your eyes?

You could have slit my throat and watched me choke, but you hesitated.

You're afraid, aren't you? Afraid of losing me?

How disgusting.

I was kidnapped, abused, humiliated until I wanted to die, yet I thought of you, still alive.

You gave me a reason to keep going. I wanted you dead, but without that, my life would have no meaning.

People say heroes are born in troubled times, but no hero has yet appeared.

So let a rabble like us become the victors instead.

Your desire for me will become the chains that bind you.

This book has many characters and an ensemble cast. The blurb is written in first person; the novel itself is in third person.

My dear readers, please begin reading.