Biyu grew up a caged bird. With a beautiful face at birth, her family had her sequestered and raised by tutors and servants. Her education is thorough in the things a daughter of a noble family groomed to be a wife of a family head should be. Then, one day, they sent her to be sacrificed to the Great Ruby Eyed Serpent. Shown compassion by the Great Serpent, Biyu is offered power and a life completely different from the one she was raised for. When her choices are ignominious death or an ignominious life where the abuse of her training could make the world her enemy, she obviously chose the latter. So she trains, learns, and one day will return to the Empire to find a purpose for her life beyond being a caged bird. - Female MC is asexual, ends up in a relationship with women. - Book one ends with the MC simultaneously loosing all progression, but gaining a great deal of power. Its a soft power reset. - Sensitive content includes depictions or indirect references to discrimination, execution (including non-judicial), slavery, sexual assault, etc. - Profanity will be uncommon, but it can get foul.