After a father turns into a serpent monster and dies, she’s taken into a noble household paraded like a pampered lady but used as a scapegoat to “absorb” the family’s misfortune. Only a fellow servant in the same plight gives her room to breathe. As life grows more brutal, she discovers the heirloom she swallowed is actually that man’s Reverse Scale a taboo core that binds fate, rage, and desire. Determined to free him and escape this house of curses, she’s pulled into a dark, adult web of power plays and forbidden intimacy where one wrong touch can awaken the beast.
