“Your Highness, the Princess Consort has recovered from her madness. She has been brought back to the manor.”
A sudden “illness” sent Liu Ying, Princess Consort of Prince Shou, away to a country estate, where she vanished from the capital’s social scene. Months later, a soft sedan chair carried the “recovered” princess back to the manor. She looked just as she always had, gentle and composed, as if the ordeal that nearly killed her had never happened.
No one knew that the soul inside that body belonged to someone else: a woman bent on revenge. She was Liu Can, the dead princess’s twin sister, who had once dreamed of roaming the world with a sword at her side. Her sister’s sudden death, and a blood-written letter, exposed the filth and cruelty hidden beneath Prince Shou’s refined manner.
Could the blood of a loved one be shed in vain? Liu Can burned her old clothes, turning the act of studying her reflection into a sacrifice. She perfectly recreated her sister’s every smile and frown, returning to the gilded cage that had devoured her sister under the guise of someone “lost and found.”
The hand that once wielded a sword now rested by his pillow, her smile sweet and radiant. Every caress from the prince stirred murderous intent within her; every word of his defense sounded like a death knell in her ears.
“Your Highness, your princess has returned.”
This time, she would wield a princess’s honor to carry out the Lord of the Underworld’s sentence. No blood, no ending.
