The Caged Bird and the Blade in His Hand

The Caged Bird and the Blade in His Hand

He is a demon who crawled out of hell.

Xiao Jin, heir to the Prince of Zhenbei in the Great Yin Empire, was bullied relentlessly as a child. Growing up in a princely household that devoured its own, he developed a cruel and sinister heart. He doesn't understand love. He only knows how to take. Whatever he wants, he'll claim by any means necessary.

She is a wealthy merchant's daughter, born with a rebellious streak.

Shen Qinghuan is clever and perceptive, and hates being controlled more than anything. On a snowy night, she took pity on a blood-soaked man and saved him in a ruined temple, never realizing she'd rescued a beast she could never shake off.

When he awoke, the first thing he said was, “The life you saved is yours now.”

From that moment on, she became his sole obsession.

He clipped her wings and locked her by his side, thinking that was all it took to possess her. But she escaped again and again, willing to jump off cliffs or leave home under an assumed name, as long as she could get away from the madman.

He searched every inch of the land and traveled the world until he finally found her again. This time, he set fire to her restaurant. Firelight illuminated his handsome yet cruel face. “Huan'er, you can run again. But wherever you run, I'll burn it down.”

She thought he'd never understand what love was.

But he spent three years searching for her, risked his life to protect her, and clumsily learned how to wait and how to give.

When the mad heir meets the rebellious heiress, their story is a fierce tug-of-war between possession and resistance, and a journey in which two wounded souls tame each other.

“Xiao Jin, let's make a deal. You can't kill innocent people or restrict my freedom anymore. And I... will try to love you.”

“Deal.”

He spent his whole life learning how to love the girl who taught him what it meant to fall for someone.