Rough Seas: A Li

This creature is cold-hearted and wanton, knows nothing of loyalty, and is fit only to be a little plaything.

That was the Imperial Preceptor’s assessment of A Li when the Second Prince Tuoba Ke acquired him at the age of seven.

He was the son of a fox spirit, born breathtakingly beautiful, but unfortunately male.

Tuoba Ke planted a love-bug poison in him to keep him under control. Such a beauty would be wasted as a mere plaything. Better to raise him into a useful tool.

When A Li turned seventeen, the Second Prince took him for the first time, then gave him to his elder brother, the Crown Prince at the time.

Long afterward, A Li asked Tuoba Ke, “I just want to know, did you ever love me, even for a moment?”

I’m terrible at writing blurbs.

Theme: The riverbank is not the worst of the storms; the hardest roads lie elsewhere in this world.