The day her kingdom fell, she watched her father plunge from a tower and her mother dash herself against a pillar. Murong Jue lifted her chin, his gaze shifting from coldness to stunned disbelief.
“It's a match.”
That one phrase turned her from a princess of one kingdom into a slave in another.
White gauze curtains, aloeswood incense, ravished night after night
Substitute + obsession + the groveling road to redemption + coercion + tragic historical romance