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    Why it's happened is far less relevant to Maomao than it *has*. She's made a decision and she's not backing out now, no matter how tempting it is. Regular baths. Infinite medical ingredients. Someone who adores her--even if there's no accounting for taste. Contracts have been signed, oaths have been sworn, rituals have been performed.

    Except for the very last one.

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    Maomao was born the daughter of Fengxian and Lakan—one of the most respected (and feared) men in the empire. As a baby, she was promised to Prince Ka Zuigetsu in an arranged marriage between families. To the adults, it was a brilliant political move. To her, it was just a future she never chose.

    Growing up among gilded walls and silent rules, Maomao learned early to observe—and to resist.
    Jinshi, the young prince, was raised to rule. Surrounded by expectations, he always followed the path laid out… until he realized that Maomao had no intention of doing the same.

    She doesn’t like him. He doesn’t understand why.
    But the two are bound by a destiny that never stops tightening.

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    In an empire where wolf’s blood dictates everything, alphas rule with strength, betas serve, and omegas survive under their power. Bloodline is law and breaking it could cost your life.

    Maomao has been kidnapped and sold to the palace, where everyone believes she is just a common beta. But she hides an impossible secret: she is half wolf, half kitsune. Her lineage allows her to conceal her ears and tail, though her emotions sometimes betray her, revealing what she has worked so hard to keep hidden.

    Jinshi, a pure-blooded alpha and the empire’s future leader, recognizes her instantly as the owner of his red thread. From that moment, he cannot help but fall for her. But Maomao, with her instincts numbed by years of hunger and misery, feels only a strange tingling in her heart an attraction she mistakes for simple admiration of his beauty.

    Amid secrets, poisons, laughter, and dangers lurking around every corner, two destined souls meet in a game of power and desire. Will the red thread unite them, even when their worlds seem irreconcilable?

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    “Maomao?” He presses, fingers closing over hers and lowering their joined hands to her lap, and she blinks in surprise at the use of her name. “What is it? What’s wrong?”

    “Their technique is sloppy,” she answers honestly. “I feel strain on my heart. They should have targeted the nervous system instead.”

    Master Jinshi stares at her like she’s spoken a foreign language he can’t even begin to try and understand. She tries to explain.

    “Certain snake venoms cause coagulation of the blood, which could have been effective and made the blood unable to move through my veins, but if the end result is simply making my heart stop beating by targeting the muscles involv-”

    “Maomao,” Master Jinshi says, very calmly, “I need you to stop speaking now.”

    (an assassin tries to kill jinshi with a poisoned blade that gets maomao instead) (she is obviously much less concerned about this than everyone else)

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    “I don’t see why I have to go,” grumbles Maomao as Xiaolan dresses her.

    “Of course you have to go! You are the consort of the Moon Prince, my lady!”

    Maomao has still not met the emperor’s younger brother. She almost doubts his existence. There is a slight curiosity in her mind as to whether or not he will attend this garden party. Though, honestly, she much prefers him as a spectral figure than a flesh and blood one.

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