She was reborn from the blazing flames of the Cold Palace, returning to the night ten years ago when she was offered up as a captive.
This time, Chu Yunzhuo, the princess of a fallen kingdom, begs for death before everyone, vowing to sever the foolish obsession that consumed her in her previous life and drag the emperor who betrayed, ruined, and imprisoned her down from the clouds and into the dirt.
Yet he insists on keeping her alive, personally fastening the most exquisite shackles around her.
“I insist that you live, for a long, long time.”
She weaves a web of vengeance in his palm, plotting each step as she watches him fall into her tender trap.
Little does she know that he, too, has returned from that same great fire. He sees through every disguise she wears and willingly steps into the game she has carefully laid out
“You want the world? I’ll give it to you.”
“You want revenge? My life is yours.”
“Chu Yunzhuo, in this life, we are each other’s prison, and each other’s… only way out.”
• Both reborn, a battle of equals: Every careful move she thinks she makes is indulgence he planned long ago
• Utter captivity: The most magnificent palace is the coldest prison; the gentlest gaze is the deadliest poison
• Love and hate: The hatred is real, and so is that moment of falling for each other
