“No… I won't.”
“Oh, petal, I wasn't asking. You WILL marry me.”
****

Dr. Kiyomi, a neurosurgeon rogue lycan, lives in & never leaves the human hospital— the safest place for her. That’s until a high-profile mafia surgery goes wrong and she’s blamed for it despite being on leave. 

Suddenly the limelight is on her, forcing her rare last name back into the memories of people who have long wanted her dead — the Bogdan Lycans. As if that isn't enough, the Ivanov Russian mob is after her with vengeance in their hearts. 

Scared, Kiyomi leaves the hospital pretending to be a night-shift male nurse — which works, only for her to be kidnapped at the hospital’s entrance, by the cruel lycan queen’s guards who drag her to the queen Sakura’s human home.
— — — 
Sakura Watanabe; the soulless crazy queen known to screw up everyone for fun. She ruins everything she touches and sucks the life out of everyone around her. She is bad, cruel, and a menace who does whatever she wants, however, and whenever she wants it.

When she hears of Dr. Kiyomi’s misfortunes, she is curious to see what will make that lycan break, and orders that Kiyomi be brought to her, so she can sign the infamous Sakura contract that always leaves the signee dead, dead and dead. 

What Sakura doesn't factor in is the fact that the woman who walks through her door is her soulmate. And even worse is the desire she gets to protect Kiyomi. Not one to relent in the hands of fate, Sakura forces Kiyomi to sign the oppressive contract.

What happens when Sakura's heart starts beating for Kiyomi, and she goes after everyone who hurt her soulmate? Will she cancel the contract and embrace love, or will she stay the stoic soulless queen with nothing to live for?

And even better, how long can Sakura fight fate?

Later that night as the moon shone bright in the sky, Yuka was handed the keys to the kingdom. The very kingdom that Izanami had stripped her and many others of peace. 


For the woman who has made it her mission to bring down the Watanabes, to be the one who was trusted with that same kingdom, by a Watanabe. 


A kingdom so dangerous yet one that screamed home on most days. Perhaps it was what the fates had willed. Or perhaps it was just the turn of events triggered by Liu Kuangxin.


"Come back to me, Kiki. I can't lose another person in a war again," Yuka had whispered softly into the night as the last of the Doiwa army left the palace. 


In her arms were pieces of the armor that Tsuki had prepared specifically for Kiyomi. Armor that Kiyomi had decided she wouldn't need because apparently she had missed the scent of home and Yuka had given her just that. 


Chapter 482 - C482: A Dance of The Mad Men