The Schemer's Gambit

They say the chieftain of Qingzong Fortress is a bloodthirsty monster who revels in cruelty. Tan Yin knew this when she orchestrated her own capture—a deadly gamble where one wrong move means death. Tortured, humiliated, stripped of everything. While he drinks and laughs with his men by the roaring fire, she shivers in the autumn wind, cast into the dog pen like refuse. Crawling through the dirt, she wraps trembling arms around his ankle: "Please... have mercy." She becomes his caged songbird, never knowing kindness. Through bitter winter nights in sheer silk, she tempts him with her body, wea…