​Jingjing Yu is the notoriously ruthless CEO of her company. She is flawless, demanding, and entirely unapproachable. Her personal assistants only last a few months, no one can survive her attitude or her impossible standards for long. What the corporate world doesn't know is that Jingjing's cold exterior is a carefully constructed fortress, built to hide a devastating past and protect the one thing she actually cares about : the little sister she has raised in absolute secrecy for a decade. ​Enter Janhae. ​Bubbly, endlessly optimistic, and infuriatingly competent, Jan is everything Jingjing is not. Jan brings chamomile tea to Jingjing, handles her chaotic schedule with a warm smile, and drives her with a meticulous, gentle care that quietly soothes an old trauma Jingjing has never confessed to anyone. ​Jingjing expects Jan to break and quit by month three, just like everyone else. ​But when an emergency board meeting leaves Jingjing entirely stranded, she is forced to do the unthinkable and cross the ultimate professional boundary : she asks her assistant for a personal favor. ​What starts as a desperate, one-time request quickly begins to unravel years of Jingjing's carefully guarded isolation. Janhae doesn't just know how to flawlessly manage a schedule, she might just be the only person capable of putting the CEO's fractured life back together.

A JanJingJing fanfiction. The explosive prequel to Ember and Scandal. In the shadows of a cruel empire, two noble daughters are forged into the deadliest weapons their houses possess. Janhae Supasap is raised to become the Emberlands' uncontrollable flame - power, rage, and destruction incarnate. JingJing Yu is trained as Whisperveil's perfect political weapon - where every smile hides a blade and every word can destroy kingdoms. They were born to hate each other. Trained to destroy one another. But fate has other plans. From the brutal training grounds of their youth to the dangerous sparks of their first reunion, Ashes & Whispers reveals how the two most feared villainesses in the empire were truly born - and why their bond would one day shake the throne itself. Genre: Sapphic Fantasy • Villainess Origins • Dark Romance • Political Intrigue

#MilkCiize au wherein Clea(ciize) met Marcela(Milk) in 1812