Smile of the Dragon

In a kingdom where glory masks decay, the fall of a single family becomes the spark of something far older - and far more dangerous - than rebellion.

Beneath storm-dark skies, an empire trembles. Its banners still gleam, its armies still march, but rot has already taken hold - deep in its marrow. When a public execution silences those accused of treason, the world moves on.

But one boy does not.

He carries with him the memory of a smile - sorrowful, and final - and the echo of a prophecy whispered like a prayer.

As the drums of a new era begin to sound, fate fractures. Loyalties will crumble, truth will blur, and the line between justice and vengeance will vanish.

Because history may remember kings...

-but the Dragon remembers everything.

A dark, slow-burning tale of loss, power, and inevitability, where every silence hides a secret, and every ending is only the beginning of something far more chilling.