Chapter 1

Flawed and Unworthy

All seven of my flaws stared back at me. Seven unworthy shards of my soul. Seven faces identical to mine.

I groaned at the sharp pain shooting from the gaping cuts along my thigh, mind fogged with the terror I’d just endured. All for a plan, the self-imposed mission of a desperate girl with a throne thrust into her unworthy hands during her fifteenth Tiangong cycle of living.

My rancid imagination needn’t go into its usual spiraling to envision ......