This is the Prequel to Shadow Weaver. It can be read as a stand-alone, but if you plan on reading Shadow Weaver, you shouldn't read this first!! Despised by his father, shunned by the royal court, Prince Jakut's only desire is to leave the palace and join the Elite Commanders. But his father, the King, will go to any lengths to stop his distrusted son and crush Jakut's spirit. The King's efforts are thwarted by the arrival to the palace of the mysterious Lady Calmi.

After Li Meixing is executed by her lover alongside her family, she wakes up four years earlier and searches for a way to survive the coming conflict. ***** Li Meixing is living the perfect life. Her father is a powerful politician in the Qi Kingdom, and she is engaged to the charismatic new Emperor, Huang Siming. But at the Emperor's coronation, Li and her family are framed as traitors by and ruthlessly executed. When Meixing wakes up, she finds that she has returned to the day when she first met Huang Siming. Now no longer naive and knowing what is to come, Meixing must dive into the world of politics that she has always avoided in order to save her family from their terrible fate. If she fails, she won't have a third chance.