Broken Bones, Bound in Chains

"I'll break your bones and see how you can still pass yourself off as a man!" Steam curled over the bath as Xiao Heng tore open Shen Qing's soaked robes. The bruises winding beneath her chest bindings were shocking to behold. The astonishing young man who had saved him from a poisoned arrow on the battlefield was actually a woman!

The crime of deceiving the Emperor ignited his boundless fury. The all-powerful regent personally crushed her proud spirit, imprisoning the brilliant strategist Shen Qing in the secluded manor as his captive concubine, Shen Qing. The gilded cage was lavish and cold. He pinched her chin, his breath hissing like a snake's: "Your life is a cage forged by my own hand."

She hated him, her blood and tears soaking the threshold where she struck a pillar and died. She endured, grinding her teeth through tortures that made medicinal salves burn to the bone. When she turns her broken bones into a blade and strikes at the cage, in this deadly hunt for love born of deception, will his bloodthirsty possession crush her battered body first, or will her desperate revenge burn his power to ashes?

With bone as their pact, imprisoned love becomes their cage. See who breaks first.