The Three Pillars of Heaven

Rien, an orphan left on the banks of the Yellow River, is embarrassed to be introduced to you bound, gagged, and blinded. Before this moment Rien's life was quite unremarkable, except for three things: his unnatural beauty, his shapeshifting abilities, and his mysterious origins. Thanks to all that, Rien gets dragged down the River, where he's delivered as a gift to the Marquis Soram Ilmar.

The Three Pillars of Heaven were once homes to the three human natures of clay, ether, and shade. But the Pillar of Shade has crumbled at the hands of the Imperium. To escape the Imperium's bloody politics, the once-powerful ether lord Soram has taken refuge in the Pillar of Clay, our modern world. And here, he is slowly dying. Now only the conjugal services of a shade can restore his spiritual balance and save his life.

Rien happens to be a shade. Old blood runs in his veins, so powerful that even a taste could change fates. So, Soram offers Rien anything he would like in exchange for just a few nights of service. Anything at all.

Little do they know, this is a bargain that will shatter Heaven itself.

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You danced like light through galaxies, and I
I broke mountains, graphite moons
Ink seas flood where your soles bleed
To sate the heavens you have hewn

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CONTENT WARNINGS: Contains explicit sexual content and both referenced and explicit (non-gratuitous) scenes of sexual assault and slavery.

GENDER NOTE: Rien is a shapeshifter and can take both male and female forms, but strongly prefers their male form.

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What to expect:
- Clever and vain MC with a soft heart
- Devoted ML with one intense backstory and redemption arc
- Obsessed suitors
- Smut (sex is a major feature and also huge plot element)
- Lots and lots of slow-burn yearning. Like, maybe too much
- Hidden truths and plot twists galore
- A lot more angst than you will ever bargain for
- But a destination worth the journey
- The kind of love that shatters worlds...and saves them