Chu Yuan, the Northern Tyrant, has black-and-gold eyes and is plagued by shadows. After Qinglan’s defeat, they offer up Yun Zhao, a silver-haired, blue-eyed youth who can glimpse the Mandate of Heaven as a Star Seer, but must pay a terrible price. He is imprisoned in a golden cage.
At their first meeting, Chu Yuan demands a prophecy, only to hear the ruinous omen: “The black moon devours the sun, and the dynasty will fall.” In a fit of rage, he does the unexpected and keeps Yun Zhao imprisoned at his side. He also discovers burn-like marks on Yun Zhao’s back, the backlash of a prophecy etched like a star chart.
From then on, the tyrannical emperor and the frail prophet are caught in a deadly entanglement. Shadow-haunted nights, schemes from Yun Zhao’s homeland, deadly assassinations... Again and again, the prophecies avert Chu Yuan’s death, while also exposing the dark childhoods that bind them both.
On the day of the coronation, beside the black-iron throne symbolizing the two kings, a strange twin lotus blooms in the golden cage that once held Yun Zhao. Its ink-blue petals shimmer with dark gold, and its stamens resemble the vortex of an abyss; its moon-white petals are as clear as ice, their veins brilliant as a river of stars. Shadow and starlight are entwined forever, silently declaring that the end of the cage is also the beginning of their shared fate. Is that prophecy an ending, or the beginning of another cycle?
I can't do it anymore. The first part is pure torture, and the second part is unbearable. The extra chapter may be the first time that it doesn't sound like an order. I feel that the protagonist is foreseeable from headache to the end, but the writing is really wonderful (っ´▽`)っ✒️🌝🌝
The author's writing style is good and the characters are vividly drawn. Summary: Good-looking, but a bit cruel ^ω^