Ten years ago, Thea, an illegitimate daughter with no magic power, risked her life to pry open the formation core with her bare hands and saved Soren, the young tyrant of the enemy kingdom. Yet all she got in return was imprisonment in a dark dungeon by her own birth father. For fifteen long years, she labored as a furnace slave, her back scarred hideously by burns and whip lashes. Fifteen years later, Soren, the King of Winter, led his frost army to conquer the southern lands and demanded a noble true princess as his bride. Terrified of death, the lord forced Thea into a wedding gown, sending her as a substitute bride to this legendary bloodthirsty monster. On their wedding night, Soren intended to torment the daughter of his enemy cruelly. But the moment he tore her wedding dress apart in rage, he spotted the petal-shaped burn scar he had spent a decade searching for… When the tyrant realized that the savior he had longed for all these years had been abused like livestock by his foes for fifteen years, his burning thirst for vengeance instantly twisted into an obsessive, all-consuming urge to protect her. For her sake, he extinguished every flame in the city; for her sake, he brought the entire south to ruin! This is far more than a dramatic tale of a substitute bride and a long-buried secret. It is an epic revenge romance of a broken,
