Captive Phoenix: The Mad Emperor Is Losing His Mind Again

A deposed empress? The cold palace? The fallen princess Fu Chaoge laughs.

Everyone thinks she’s finished, but they don’t know that the best way to tame a madman isn’t to obey him. It’s to be even madder.

The deranged emperor Xiao Wujin thinks he controls my body, never realizing I’ve already chained his heart.

Everyone begs for his favor, but I want him to go mad for me, to become someone who can never leave me.

He grips my throat, his eyes bloodshot, and asks, “Fu Chaoge, why did you betray me?”

But as he teeters on the edge of losing control, I smile and kiss his bloodied lips, then whisper in his ear, “Your Majesty, because... it’s the only way to make you look at me and no one else.”

The world fears his madness. I alone use it as a stepping-stone and feed on his pain.

I tease him, provoke him, hurt him, then become the only person who can soothe him.

We are each other’s poison, and each other’s only cure.

This is a bloodless battle to the death. The stakes are our lives, and the prize is his heart, driven mad for me.

Xiao Wujin is cursed to be alone. Everyone fears him, and in all his life he has hated betrayal and deception most.

Yet the discarded consort of a fallen kingdom, whom he personally banished to the cold palace, is determined to play with both.