When a courtesan named Yume is offered to Ryomen Sukuna as a ceremonial tribute, survival after his acceptance demands only one thing of her: endurance.
Within the shrine of a monstrous lord, fear is law, obedience is survival, and mercy is never given freely. Sukunaβs attention is cruel, intimate, and impossible to escape.
But what begins as captivity becomes something far more dangerousβa bond shaped by power, hunger, fascination, and the slow corruption of longing, teased and denied.
But in a world where being wanted can be as terrible as being condemned, Yume must learn the cost of being spared.
This story contains dark romance, canon-typical violence, coercion, captivity, power imbalance, mildly dubious consent, possessive behavior, manipulation, psychological trauma, emotional hurt, anxiety, abandonment issues, sexual tension, eventual smut, and major character death.
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