Known across the empire as “The Emperor’s Unending Dream,” First Prince Anubis possesses a breathtaking, peerless beauty—yet he is whispered of as a notorious, detached playboy who refuses to take anyone seriously, with rumors claiming no woman has ever managed to spend the entire night by his side. By acting foolish and drifting far away from the line of imperial succession, he deliberately keeps the vultures at bay.

Because Anubis harbors a dark, terrifying nocturnal secret that must never, ever come to light.

That fragile equilibrium shatters when Mireille, a sharp-witted count’s daughter, stumbles upon his hidden curse and steps in to rescue him from a mortal crisis. With her life on the line and a dangerous leverage in her hands, she makes an audacious demand:

“If you want me to keep your secret, you will marry me.”

Cornered and blackmailed into an engagement, Anubis agrees to a contractual partnership. Mireille is desperate to alter a doomed, tragic future she has already lived through once, while Anubis only wants to protect his deadly secret. They enter the arrangement purely to use one another as pawns.

Yet, as the days pass, something unexpected happens. For reasons he cannot fathom, Anubis finds his volatile, dangerous aura instantly subduing the moment Mireille is near. What was meant to be a cold, transactional alliance slowly curdles into an intense, suffocating obsession on his part.

A noblewoman who planned to keep a prince on a leash, and a prince who secretly longs to be kept by her. In an imperial court swirling with dark curses, poisonous conspiracies, and deadly royal politics, a high-stakes reversal contract romance begins!