Adult Content Warning
This work could have adult content. If you continue, you have agreed that you are willing to see such content.
-
Tags
Summary
Wu Suowei is a farmer scraping by on dying crops and straw slippers, doing everything he can to keep himself and his sickly mother alive. Kindness is a luxury—until he saves a wounded stranger in black and unknowingly entangles himself with the most feared name in the empire—Chi Cheng. The emperor’s cursed son, a “serpent” rejected by men yet chosen by the heavens. When signs from the sky threaten to place him on the throne, the court erupts in fear, lies, and quiet conspiracies meant to erase him before he can rule.
In an empire collapsing under prophecy and politics, a single lie—dressed in silk and loyalty—may secure both a throne and a reckoning.