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Jakiever was born with a pure heart - but purity has no place in the shadow of a king. Trained by his own father to become his silent assassin, the prince's soul has long been painted in blood and guilt. Beneath the golden mask that hides his true face, however, flickers the last light of compassion - a secret mercy his father could never extinguish.
Far beyond the palace walls, Reila lives a life gilded in beauty yet bound in chains. Hidden from the world by her parents since birth, she dreams of freedom, of wind and sunlight - unaware that her confinement was prophesied to save her life. For if she ever meets the creature marked as the Cackoo's Death, her young heart will stop.
But fate does not heed warnings. When the assassin prince and the sheltered lady's paths cross, the kingdom's buried sins begin to stir. A curse older than their bloodline awakens - and the line between love, duty, and damnation grows dangerously thin.