A Gilded Cage Wears a Throne

The novel was clear.

The villain deserved his death.

A feared kingdom captured the heirs of rival nations, breaking their future rebellions by chaining their princes and princesses as slaves. Among them was the protagonist, Riven Solcaire....humiliated, beaten, and stripped of dignity by the villain crown prince, Maelis Ravencourt, while his destined bride, Seraphine Valoire, stood untouched by the cruelty of that fate.

Love bloomed in blood.

Revenge followed.

But the story restarts when Maelis awakens years before the downfall, inside the young body of the villain himself.

The slave prince, Riven Solcaire, kneels at his feet, brush trembling in small hands, eyes lowered-but hatred already burns beneath the surface.

If Maelis follows the script, he will die.

If he changes it, he may create something far worse than the novel's ending.

Because saving the protagonist might not save himself.

And mercy might be remembered...
or resented.