by john1208·Translated by Novel AI Studio
My name is Vesna Kosovich, and my only ambition was to be gloriously, exceptionally lazy. As a mind-weaver of rare talent, I could have climbed the ranks of the Arcanum, but I preferred quiet obscurity with my little brother, Luka. That life ended when I woke up shackled in the Ashen Spire, the Arcanum's most notorious psychic prison. My new husband, Warden Damir Volkov, believes I'm the spy who sold him out, the one who caused the psychic backlash that left him scarred and unstable. His revenge is a masterpiece of cruelty: a 'marriage' where he uses my own mind-weaving abilities to make the Spire a living nightmare for me. He forces me to maintain the prison's psychic wards, a task that slowly erodes my sanity. He thinks this is justice. He doesn't know his most trusted subordinate framed me. He doesn't realize he's destroying the only person who can truly see the man behind the monster. And he has no idea that every punishment, every cruel whisper, is forging a bond between us that will shatter him when he learns the truth. How much of myself must I sacrifice before my innocence is proven, and will there be anything left of us to save?
