The Bride He Waited For

To save her dying younger brother, Alice signed a demonic contract and became the "caged bride" of the proud, solitary vampire prince, Cael. Within the cold walls of his castle, he wore a mysterious mask yet showed tenderness to her alone. However, when she fell pregnant, a portrait in a secret chamber ruthlessly shattered that warmth—the face of the woman in the painting was identical to her own! It turned out she was merely a surrogate, burdened further by the brutal revelation that he was the "killer of her father." In despair, she fled with their child and vanished for six years. Not until the blood moon descended and the power of their forbidden child shook heaven and earth did the cruel conspiracy and the 300-year-old truth unravel together: she was never anyone's shadow, but the reincarnated true love he had pined for—and was willing to die for—for three centuries. As a lethal blade pierces through the chest, the cursed blood reignites. Will this forbidden, angst-ridden romance bridging fate and reincarnation end in destruction, or ultimate salvation?