Caged Phoenix: The Princess of the New Dynasty Is the Last Heir of the Old

[Mad Emperor vs. Princess of a Fallen Kingdom]

[Tormented Romance + Pseudo-Incest + Revenge]

He slaughtered her entire clan, yet claimed he would protect her for the rest of her life.

She was the least favored princess of Chu. He was a hostage sent from an enemy state. In Chu Mingzhao’s life, the boy who risked his own life to save her in an icy lake was the only comfort in her bleak existence.

But she didn’t know that beneath his gentle facade lurked a ferocious beast, and that the tenderness in his eyes was steeped in the poison of revenge.

Ten years of plotting, undone in a single day. He drenched the Chu Palace in blood, stepped over the corpses of her father, brothers, and all her loved ones, and took his seat on the cold dragon throne.

On the day of his coronation, snow fell thick and fast.

Dressed in a black dragon robe and brimming with confidence, he reached out to her, his voice tender and full of affection. “Zhaozhao, at last I can protect you and keep you safe.” She looked at the scar he had once suffered for her, her heart twisting with pain. She smiled bitterly. “Xiao Heng, you disgust me!”

He held her as she fell asleep each night and spoke of their tender past, never realizing that every touch made her feel as if she were falling into an icy abyss. He made the realm her prison and love her chains, keeping her trapped in his arms, but he could not imprison the bone-deep hatred and pain of losing her country.

In this tormented romance, who is the real prisoner?