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“All it took was a lie to break him. Now, he will break the world to make it whole.” Lucien Virelthorn was born to the snow-clad nobility of the North, loved and sheltered—naive in his golden cage. He believed in duty. In love. In his fiancée, Serenya Velcroft. Until her betrayal shattered everything: a false accusation, a ruined name, and a family that chose silence over truth. Beaten on the streets, cast from his lineage, Lucien saw clarity for the first time. Power—not love—moved the world. Love was a leash. Power held the reins. Now 25 and carved by suffering, Lucien returns not as a son, but as a necromancer—a devil-bound count with violet eyes and blood-drenched hands. He claims a neighboring territory by force, slaughters its noble line, and binds its daughter, Elaria Duskryn, to him in name and flesh. But beneath his commanding exterior festers a mind at war: driven by symmetry, haunted by compulsion, and obsessed with shaping Elaria into the perfect, willing consort of his new dark kingdom. As war brews and old houses stir, Lucien promises one thing to his brother who now leads House Virelthorn: “I will not raise a hand against our blood… unless it dares reach into my shadow.” Between puppet strings and fractured hearts, Puppeteer of the Silver Dove is a slow-burn descent into obsession, control, and a villain’s rise to terrible power—where love isn’t given, it’s sculpted.