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Beneath the palace's gilded ceilings, truth coils in shadow. Whispers move faster than steel and loyalties are worn like masks - fragile, necessary, deadly. As the realm's future is decided, power is bartered with smiles and promises; alliances form and unravel in an instant.
Amid the plotting, a quieter, riskier war is waged: a friendship that tastes dangerously like something more, and a guarded heart that must choose between duty and the daring of desire. In the Serpent's Court, love is not an escape - it is another weapon, and perhaps the most unpredictable of all.