The caged princess
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"They called it a wedding, but she knew it was a cage."
Seraphina Elyssar arrived as a bride, but the Emperor saw her as a prisoner.
Xavien Draethis was feared by all-ruthless, powerful, untouchable.
But unlike the rest of the world, she did not fear him.
And that was the beginning of everything.
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