A Dream of Splendor in the Deep Palace

“She belongs to you now.” He sneered. She had dared to ruin his whole life, so he would make her suffer every humiliation imaginable, until she begged for death and still couldn't die!

“You can't treat me like this.” She rested a hand on her belly. “Because I'm carrying your child, the only child you'll ever have!” This child had come at just the right time.

Disaster struck, and a peerless princess became a convict's maid. In the depths of the palace, she struggled to survive, barely seeing the light of day. She schemed with all her might, yet why was it that every time she escaped the dragon's lair, she wound up in the tiger's den?

Love and hate stood back to back. Whenever they turned around, they could always see each other.

The palace was a labyrinth, its beauties scheming and plotting against one another, danger lurking at every step. In the end, all that tender affection was just a dream. When she awoke, where could she go...