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Intro. In the city where the night belonged to dangerous men, his name made the walls tremble. Head of an empire built on blood, broken alliances and purchased loyalty, he reigned supreme, cold as the steel he wore on his hip. No one knew his flaws. No one dared to look for them. She, on the contrary, should never have crossed paths with this world. Sold by her own family to erase debts she had never contracted, she had been delivered as a bargaining chip, then forcibly married to this man whose reputation preceded his shadow. She had already lived in this golden cage for three years, surrounded by luxury, silence and armed guards. He had never touched her. There had always been a strange, almost cruel distance between them. He spoke to her little, looked at her even less, but watched over her with implacable rigor. No man could approach him. No danger was to reach him.

Nikolai Ivanov

@Scarlet Hayashi