[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-marked-by-the-mad-king-alpha":3,"chapter-marked-by-the-mad-king-alpha-marked-by-the-mad-king-alpha-chapter-57":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Marked By The Mad King Alpha",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1732188,2214,"Chapter 57 Truth Dressed In Madness","marked-by-the-mad-king-alpha-chapter-57",57,"\u003Cp>Phoebe’s POV\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I heard her screaming from outside, but since I lacked permission to enter the room, I didn’t check.\" The warrior dropped his head, exposing his neck in complete submission.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I couldn’t process what I was hearing. How could he speak such lies without even a flicker of hesitation? The bastard was lying straight to the king’s face, not even a twitch betraying his deception. How could he do that?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I stared at the warrior, stunned. \"He’s lying! He’s lying! Reginald was here!\" The words tore from my throat, rage consuming me. My blood felt like fire, my chest tight as I struggled to breathe, trying desperately to make Perry understand, but my words tumbled out in a jumbled mess. The king’s sharp gaze cut through me like ice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He lied! Please! He lied!\" I kept repeating myself, but even to my own ears, I sounded unhinged, especially with the warrior standing there silent, letting me unravel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The warrior looked at me with pity, and that look made my fury explode.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Something snapped inside me. I grabbed a jagged piece from the vase I’d shattered earlier and lunged at him. I wouldn’t let him mock me. I was telling the truth—why wouldn’t they believe me?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But my attack only made everything worse, made my words sound even more insane.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Stop this madness!\" Perry roared, catching me before I could reach the warrior, who looked startled but didn’t bother defending himself. He knew he could handle me easily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A shifter could sense another’s strength—obviously, I fell into the weaker category.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m going to kill him! I’m going to kill him!\" I couldn’t control my emotions, couldn’t breathe properly. The words just spilled out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My mind felt clouded, like I was trapped on a mountain shrouded in fog.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Get out,\" Perry commanded the warrior, who bowed and walked away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He moved deliberately slow, as if taunting me—though maybe that was just my paranoid mind playing tricks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m going to kill him! He lied to you! I didn’t lie to you! Reginald was here!\" I didn’t care that my palm was bleeding as the king ripped the glass shard from my grip and hurled it away. I couldn’t feel any pain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then Reginald’s words came flooding back. There were Movement soldiers everywhere, surrounding this place. The king had no idea enemies encircled him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To be honest, I was his enemy too, actively poisoning him whenever I got the chance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I wanted to tell him, but I stopped myself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why would I warn him? He’d never believe me anyway, and what would I gain by revealing that?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t because I supported the Movement—it was because I despised this mate of mine. I wanted him gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If everything went according to plan and he died, I planned to vanish. I wouldn’t let Kevin capture me. I wouldn’t let anyone cage me again. I’d rather die first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, I stopped screaming at the king. I stared at him, but my gaze felt hollow, like I was looking right through him, while Perry held me at arm’s length.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You don’t believe me, do you?\" My voice came out eerily calm, like I was discussing the weather, but my expression twisted with pain as reality crashed over me. \"You think I’m crazy, that I’m the liar, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perry said nothing. He just stared at me, and for a heartbeat, I felt the desperate urge to make him believe me. I wanted someone—anyone—to believe me. I wanted to be truly heard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But when I found no trace of trust in his eyes, I gave up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fine. Don’t believe me.\" I turned to clean up the mess, but Perry stopped me, guiding me to the sofa.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sit down.\" He left and returned with a first aid kit, setting it on the table before sitting beside me. He took my bleeding hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perry didn’t take me to Helen. He’d seen the wound wasn’t deep, so he’d handle it himself. Besides, I’d been to Helen more than he preferred.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew how to stop bleeding and wrap wounds—he’d done it to himself before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I stayed silent, letting him work because there was no point in fighting when he was so determined.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was exhausted. I wanted to sleep. I wanted to close my eyes and never wake up again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I wanted this nightmare to end. If I could, I’d disappear completely. It would be peaceful to vanish from this world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why don’t you believe me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I hadn’t meant to ask, but the suffocating silence forced the words out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I stared into Perry’s electric blue eyes, unable to read his thoughts. He was impossible to decipher.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I wished I could mindlink. I wished I could shift into my beast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I never said I didn’t.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But you never said you believed me either.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I cursed myself for continuing this pointless conversation. I wouldn’t get anywhere with this. Perry finished the bandage and stood up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He left the room, and soon an omega entered to clean the mess while I sat in the same position, staring at my bandaged hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>——\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perry’s POV\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What? Why would you want to do that?\" Flynn looked at the king with confusion. He set down the document in his hand and gave Timothy a look that said: what’s wrong with him?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The gamma shrugged, equally puzzled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ask everyone. I want to know where Reginald was during the new warriors’ acceptance ceremony. But don’t alert him.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is insane. We don’t have time for this.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perry then turned his attention to Timothy. \"Go check on Phoebe. I want you to tell me exactly what happened.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What? No. The last time I tried talking to her, you nearly killed me,\" Timothy quickly rejected the idea.\u003C\u002Fp>",956,"2026-06-06T16:11:22.572Z",1,"novelbin.me","49e6759bd3f090b2026e14ce33e92328f5363cc8990f73fb6b65d129e32e3091","marked-by-the-mad-king-alpha-chapter-58","marked-by-the-mad-king-alpha-chapter-56",302,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmarked-by-the-mad-king-alpha-cover.jpg"]