The Bones of My Beloved

Name: The Bones of My Beloved
Author: Sister Wenwen

锁卿骨

by Sister Wenwen (文文姐)

Status: Completed
Length: 499k Words
Genre: Ancient Romance
Subgenre: Palace & Household Intrigue
Updated: 9mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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Synopsis

She returns through the snow wearing another person’s face, determined to collect a blood debt from the imperial city that devours all who enter.

Five years ago, Empress Chu Qingqing died unjustly in the cold palace, and the entire Chu family was wiped out. Five years later, Shen Qingci, the daughter of a frontier general, returns to the capital. Every frown and smile of hers resembles the late empress by seven parts out of ten.

The deranged emperor Xiao Zhi abducts her in broad daylight and locks her inside Weiyang Palace, sealed for five years. Keeping her imprisoned at his side night after night, he brushes his fingertips over her trembling brows and laughs, his voice dripping with venom. “Qingqing, stop pretending. I know it’s you.”

Shen Qingci denies it flatly, yet countless nights she wakes with a start to find the emperor, so dark and possessive by day, kneeling beside her cold bed. Trembling, he clutches her hand, as lowly as a dog begging for scraps. “Please... don’t leave me again...”

She thinks this is only a passing madness of the emperor’s. Gritting her teeth, she plays along while weaving a secret web of revenge inside her gilded cage. Until the day...

Outside the imperial study, the enemy who once personally sent her family to the execution ground is wagging his tail and begging Xiao Zhi for mercy. Her emperor toys unconcernedly with the bloodstained jade hairpin she loved most in her previous life, then smiles at the man.

“Shh. Don’t make a sound.”

“I only have one dog.”

When the truth tears everything apart, she discovers that the man who locked her away has already nailed himself to the same executioner's frame. The purges of the past five years, the bells ringing in the dead of night, the old scar over his heart... all were the deranged price he paid, sacrificing his empire and bargaining with the underworld to bring her back.

Now the ghost has returned, and the emperor bows his head.

In this game, she wants more than her enemies’ lives. She wants the mad Son of Heaven to willingly remain her prisoner for all eternity.

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