"To save his brother, Zaliyah Ruo Han didn't just walk into hell; he married the King of it."
Zaliyah is an abomination hybrid born from an unholy love affair between a demon and a celestial as such his birth was a dead warrant and his grandmother was the executioner.
Casted into the bottomless waterfall by his scornful grandmother, his end was supposed to be swift but fate offered him another chance; Adopted by a human family as the cherished , fragile young master of the Ruo Han mansion.
He is a boy of silk and silence, living only for the protective embrace of his elder brother, Karas.
But when a blood-stained night ends in a tragedy that should have been final, Zaliyah makes a desperate, unholy pact.
To pull Karas back from the brink of death, Zaliyah barters the only thing he has left: His freedom.
Now, Zaliyah carries a secret that burns hotter than the Night-Stalker poison in his veins. He is the first human Consort in a millennium, bound by a glowing crimson brand to Malachi, the violent, Red-eyed King of the hyalopsite Throne.
Trapped between a brother who would burn the world to protect him and a Demon King who views him as a "beautiful parasite," Zaliyah must navigate a court of 1,000 cuts, poisoned tea, and ancient wars.
The marriage ritual was only the beginning. In the shadow of the Underworld, Zaliyah is about to learn that a demon’s hate is cold... but his obsession is a fever that never breaks.
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