He gave his mistress a million-crystal jade bracelet. He gave his wife cheap earrings.
On their vow ceremony day, Rose Frostclaw watched her fiancé's lover walk to the altar — wearing the exact same wedding gown.
She didn't cry. She didn't beg.
She walked into the Temple of Life, drank the Root Severance potion, and ended the pregnancy he had already betrayed. Then she took him to the Council of Elders, laid out every receipt, every phantom image, every lie — and burned his world to the ground.
