gender-thief
Hidden behind the N109 Zone barrier lies a castle no map dares to name-ancient, silent, and very much alive. She never meant to find it.
Once a skilled huntress, MC had spent her life chasing danger, not becoming prey. But everything changed the moment the cameras turned on her. Paparazzi, rumors, whispers from her hometown-she ran from all of it. Ran until the world blurred, until the only sanctuary left was the forbidden N109 Zone, a place where humanity ended and monsters began.
There, survival meant becoming sharper, colder... merciless.
Wolves stalked her. Fair folk misled her. Criminals hunted her. And vampires? They watched.
Half-starved and bleeding, she stumbles through twisted iron gates and into the domain of Sylus-a being as beautiful as he is terrifying. Known in hushed legends as something far older than the Zone itself, Sylus does not kill her.
He keeps her.
In his castle of shadows, she becomes something fragile and rare-a Songbird in a predator's world. Not quite a prisoner. Not quite free. He watches her with quiet fascination, drawn to her defiance, her fire... her heartbeat.
Especially her heartbeat. The blood in her veins. But monsters are not the only danger in the dark.
One night, restless and haunted by the life she abandoned, she wanders beyond the castle walls. The forest is different after midnight-alive in ways even she, a huntress, never understood. Eyes follow. Voices whisper. Something ancient answers her presence.
And something chooses her. That night, the hunt ends. That night, she dies. Or perhaps she is reborn.
When Sylus finds her, the choice is no longer hers to make. Blood binds them. Fate seals it. Humanity fades.
And in its place rises something new-something powerful, something eternal... something that belongs to him. His Songbird no longer sings for the sun. No, she was to be Queen.