Hushing the Warlord's Nightmares
By @john1208
Kahina Zarr was enjoying a perfectly quiet morning tea when the palace guards kicked her doors open and dumped a chained, bleeding slave onto her carpets. This, they announced, was Ozan Dakhmar - the fearsome enemy general - and her new fiancé, a political marriage meant to humiliate them both. As a transmigrator, Kahina knows the original novel's plot: this shattered captive is destined to become the tyrant who burns the continent to ash. What the story omitted, however, was his sympathetic truth. Ozan never wanted war; he fought only to secure a sanctuary for his magically poisoned tribe. Quietly ruthless, Kahina accepts the engagement. While she systematically obliterates the nobles who tortured him from the shadows, behind closed doors, she pours a relentless affection onto the broken general. Whenever his severe night terrors strike, she holds him tightly, refusing to let go until he calms. Slowly, her warmth melts his frozen, suspicious heart. Bound by a bittersweet, unspoken love, Ozan soon realizes he would gladly abandon his grand revenge just to live peacefully by her side. But can their fragile sanctuary survive when the Emperor finally marches on their estate?
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