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Whispers of a Jaded Love by Liliyana Shadowlyn

The wind isn’t the only thing whispering by the river…

Jiǎo was born into privilege, and into the wrong body. With the new emperor seeking a bride, she knows time is running out. Fleeing a fate worse than death, she runs into the forest, casting away her golden bracelets one by one as an offering to the spirits who promise a path to freedom. Her final gift, offered in a moment of true desperation, an heirloom jade pendant unlocks a strange magic; transforming her into a regal panda. Powerful and masculine at last, Jiǎo no longer feels like a stranger in his own skin. But freedom comes with a price: he can never leave the estate’s grounds again, animated objects and the river spirits his only companions.

Zìsī has spent her life running; from a mother who never wanted her, from a husband who breaks more than bones, from a world that refuses her a place. To win her freedom, she turns her husband’s most loyal weapon against him: the bodyguard set to watch her. With soft words and calculated glances, she tangles him in desire until his vigilance falters and her path opens. But escape is only the beginning. In the hidden estate of a beastly master, Zìsī glimpses what she craves most: safety, and the means to buy it. A jade pendant, rare and unmistakable, gleaming like fate in her palm. It is the very heirloom described on a noblewoman’s missing poster, promising a reward too rich to abandon, even if it means betraying yet another refuge.

Torn between survival and compassion, truth and betrayal, both Jiǎo and Zìsī must face what they’re willing to sacrifice for the chance to live as their true selves. Can love bloom in the shadows of broken pasts and whispered magic, beside a river of spirits?

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