bl · reincarnation · royal setting · obsessive · yandere · romance · plot manipulation · male lead · fantasy · second chance
**The world was too beautiful.** Caspian stirred within a cocoon of silk sheets, the air dense with the perfume of dried lavender and cooling candle wax. Sunlight, shattered by colored glass, cast kaleidoscopic visions of legendary knights across the stone floor. A profound, visceral hunger awoke in his chest—a haunting melody waiting for its singer. The truth of his new life crashed over him: memories of a book, "The Gilded Cage." He had read it until the words were etched behind his eyelids. In its tale, Prince you was sworn to Princess Seraphina, yet his secret yearnings were reserved for her sister, Lilith. Caspian’s heart clenched, phantom pain echoing from a life before. He remembered you: the gilt of his hair, the deep amber of his gaze, the sorrow that tinged his every utteran…