Total pages in book: 126
Estimated words: 117167 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 586(@200wpm)___ 469(@250wpm)___ 391(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 117167 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 586(@200wpm)___ 469(@250wpm)___ 391(@300wpm)
No answer.
Xiang turned around, his eyes skimming the room quickly, but his guide was nowhere to be found.
“Hey! Where did you go? Did you hear me?” Xiang shouted as he jogged from one end of the room to the other. But he couldn’t find the man.
A heavy weight sank into the pit of his stomach and a chill ran over his skin as he turned to the door they’d used to enter the massive room. It was closed. How was it closed? It had taken the two of them to open it. There was no way the stranger had closed it on his own, and quietly.
No, not just quietly. Dead silent. Not a noise.
His hearing was sharper than any other creature in existence. Right?
There was no way the man had slipped out and closed the door behind him.
Xiang raced to the door and shoved, but it didn’t budge. He tried again and again, but nothing. He was locked in.
Slowly, Xiang turned back toward the room, the glittering objects taking on a new sinister light. It was a treasure room unlike anything he could have ever imagined.
More precisely, a dragon’s hoard.
He was standing in the dragon’s hoard.
Would the dragon kill him for trespassing?
Or did the dragon now consider him part of his collection?
Fuck, he had to get out of there.
The Clans and Covens
ZHANG CLAN (KINGS OF CHAOS)
Zhang Shi Lei – former grandmaster of the clan
Zhang Xiao Dan – clan leader
Chen Bo Cheng – second eldest brother
Su Ming Yu – eldest sister
Li Xiang
Zhang Junjie
Wu Yichen – youngest brother
Gao Mei Lian – youngest sister
VARIK CLAN (LORDS OF DISCORD)
Aiden (Martin) Varik – sire of the Varik clan
Ronan (Svendson) Varik – mate of Aiden Varik
Julianna Varik – mother of the Varik brothers
Marcus Varik – oldest of the Varik sons
Rafe Varik – second oldest of the Varik sons
Beltran Varik – third oldest of the Varik sons
Winter Varik – youngest of the Varik sons
Ethan Varik – mate of Marcus Varik
Philippe (Arsenault) Varik – mate of Rafe Varik
River Varik – mate of Beltran Varik (werewolf)
Wyatt Varik – mate of Beltran Varik (werewolf)
Fox Varik – mate of Winter Varik (witch)
Gideon Varik – ward of Rafe Varik
Ryder Varik – friend of Rafe Varik
Lola Varik – best friend of Rafe Varik
Jullien (Arsenault) Varik – best friend of Philippe Varik
MONTGOMERY CLAN
Sofia Montgomery – head of the clan
David Montgomery – mate of Sofia (werewolf)
WITCH COVEN (PRINCES OF MAYHEM)
Moon Mullins – blood witch
Skylar Wallace – necromancer
Redstone “Red” Mosely – earth witch
Maddox “Mad” Rathmore – earth witch
Main Character Biographies
Wu Yichen (nickname: Didi, Yiyi) – Wu Yichen was one of the last disciples taken in by Zhang Shi Lei, though he didn’t have much choice at the time.
Yichen’s father, Wu Jinhai, was the king of the Wu vassal state. Emperor Wu was growing concerned (paranoid) about Wu Jinhai’s loyalty to the Dragon Throne, so he declared that Wu Jinhai’s only son (Wu Yichen) would be sent to the Sword of the Heavenly Garden Sect for training. Since Emperor Wu trusted in Zhang Shi Lei’s loyalty to him, he was confident that the young prince would be well cared for and learn proper obedience toward the throne while forcing Wu Jinhai to remain obedient if he ever wanted to see his son.
However, after settling in Luoyang and the sect, Prince Wu Yichen never saw his hometown of Guangling again.
Wu Yichen was only eight when he arrived at the sect, a year behind the arrival of Li Xiang and Zhang Junjie. When he arrived he was all arrogance, bluster, and big talk, but his gege Zhang Xiao Dan and Chen Bo Cheng, who were nineteen and fourteen years old, respectively, were able to firmly make it clear that he would see no special treatment because of who he was.
It took Yichen only a few months to settle in and start feeling the natural camaraderie that existed among the disciples. He loved studying at the sect and adored the grandmaster’s warm and compassionate nature. Zhang Shi Lei never made him feel like a political prisoner or a pawn, but a beloved disciple.
Wistari Elnaril Reymaris (nickname: Rei, my prince): Rei is the Crown Prince of the fae. Only living son of King Ash and Queen Belladonna—though he’s pretty sure neither of his parents would admit to spawning him now. Ever since they dragged Wu Yichen into their world and made him a plaything, Rei’s relationship with his parents and nearly all of his kind declined.
But then, he wasn’t the first crown prince, nor was his mother the first queen. Their predecessors had fallen thanks to the evil schemes of King Ash. After discovering that bitter truth, Rei began counting down the days until his father decided that he, too, wanted to steal the throne.
At first, he was indifferent to Yichen’s presence, but his stomach turned at the unrelenting torturing and mocking. When he interceded on Yichen’s behalf out of frustration, Ash took it as a sign that his son was rising against him, and ordered that he would take the rest of the vampire’s torture, resulting in countless scars and eventually an injury to his left knee that gave him a small but permanent limp.