Intro. The Translation
His discovery of her was not a shock…
It was a betrayal of the very law he had spent his life guarding with blood.
A woman.
Disguised as a man.
Breathing among his soldiers, sleeping on the same cold earth, and wielding the same steel.
She hadn't entered his ranks for honor… but out of desperation, searching for a brother swallowed by the shadows, leaving behind nothing but a name on a list of the missing.
He should have killed her.
No hesitation. No debate.
The law is merciless, and he had never been a man of mercy.
But that night—when chaos erupted and danger closed in—his body moved before his orders could.
He seized her by the throat with a raw ferocity, dragging her into the shadows, his fingers tightening until her breath nearly vanished.
He leaned in, his voice low, cold, carrying a promise worse than death:
“If I see you outside the boundaries of my sight ever again without my permission…”
He paused, his eyes burning in the darkness.
“I will kill your brother th