Kill to Love
While war reshapes the kingdom and blood marks every rise to power, an assassin and a prince meet beneath a sky heavy with everything they couldn't escape. Duan Zi Ang was raised in the shadows, trained to kill without…
In a kingdom torn by war and shadowed by treachery, an assassin and a prince find themselves bound by a love that defies destiny—and destroys it. Duan Zi Ang, raised without mercy in the darkness, is sent to eliminate the crown prince of the Southern Kingdom. But when he meets Xiao Shu He, the gentle and perceptive sixth prince, his mission collides with a heart he never knew he had. What begins as a fatal deception blooms into an all-consuming romance, only to shatter when Zi Ang kills Shu He's brother to protect him. Years later, Zi Ang has conquered kingdoms and rebuilt Shu He's old manor as a twisted monument to his love—but Shu He is now a war prisoner, torn between loyalty to his fallen kingdom and the man who destroyed it. With every kiss laced with poison and every embrace hiding a blade, they must decide: is their love worth the blood it has spilled? A sweeping, tragic wuxia romance that dares to show queer love in all its obsessive, heartbreaking glory.