Shadows of the Sightless Sovereign
By @john1208
I closed my eyes to the rhythmic beep of a hospital monitor, only to open them on a silk-draped deathbed in the Sultanate of Iryas. I had become Jasirya, the doomed antagonist of a tragic fantasy, barely surviving a poisoning attempt. Coldly calculating my odds, I descended into the deadly Labyrinth of Xaen to rescue Tazien, the illegitimate prince who had been blinded and left to rot. My plan was simple: cure his abyssal curse to earn my karmic keep, then disappear to a quiet, rural village. I cured him, but my escape failed. Dragged back into the cutthroat Spire of Astrolabes, I clawed my way to power. Ten years later, Tazien returns - not as my loyal ally, but as a towering, ruthless conqueror and my fiercest political rival for the throne. Publicly, we clash with venomous grace. Privately, my political enemies are turning up dead with their throats slit, and my supposed rival looks at me with a desperate, suffocating hunger. With the original heroine cheerfully acting as my wingwoman and our mentor hiding a devastating secret about our swapped births, can I survive the monster I stitched back together?
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