Ashes of Rebellion

Eleven years ago, Ashworth Shin watched his noble family slaughtered in a single bloody night—a purge disguised as justice, orchestrated by the Crown Prince's faction in a war for the throne. Stripped of his name, his rights, and his very right to exist, he was cast into the slums beneath the Imperial Capital, left to rot among the "Fallen Ash"—the forgotten dead-while-living, people the Empire refuses to acknowledge. For 4,015 days, Shin has carved lines into a crumbling wall, counting the day