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Erika lost her mother in war and endured cruelty from her aunt, but political necessity forces her into an engagement with Kaal Lakin, the Empire's feared emperor. Kaal is infamous for his brutality—his harem overflows with princesses, yet every woman who has entered his chambers leaves as a corpse. Despite his reputation as a merciless tyrant, something in his gaze toward Erika is different: sorrowful and anguished rather than cold and calculating. As she prepares to meet her likely fate, Erika begins to wonder what truly lies beneath the monster everyone believes him to be.