The Tyrant’s Caged Canary Has Grown Her Wings

Gentle, radiant, spoiled sweetheart ✖️ brutal, possessive, sickly madman

Chen Jiaojiao is the most doted-on princess in Great Chen. Her father dotes on her, her mother indulges her, and she's naturally grown up spoiled and domineering.

But then, overnight, Great Chen is overthrown and its ruling house replaced.

As a princess of a fallen dynasty, she is given to the new emperor. Beneath the dim candlelight, the man tells her, “Long time no see.”

He is the young eunuch who served her since childhood, always wearing a cold expression and unwilling to say much to anyone.

She deliberately tormented him, wanting to make him lower his head and give in. On snowy days, she made him kneel outside until her coat dried. She ordered him into the water to retrieve a cuju ball, nearly drowning him. Whatever mischief she got up to, he always took the blame.

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At eleven, Qi Yan was a young general who had distinguished himself on the battlefield. At twelve, he was a lowly palace slave.

When he became the new emperor, he vowed to repay her a hundredfold for every humiliation he'd suffered.

Everyone knows that the emperor has descended into madness and darkness. No one knows that in the bleak Yongming Palace, a cage made entirely of gold holds a little Jiaojiao.

The moans and cries echo through the night, and everyone says the little princess won't live much longer.

But later, someone sees the young emperor coaxing her with a grape: “Jiaojiao, can I sleep in bed with you tonight~?”

He was the one who stayed by her side and spoiled her from childhood, and he should be the one to claim her too.