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She died betrayed, her crown shattered, her unborn child lost before it ever drew breath.
Xiaozhen was once a princess of grace and restraint-until Zhang Cheng, the empire's celebrated general, became the blade that ended her life. When she opens her eyes again, she finds herself returned to the past, standing before the very man who destroyed her.
He does not recognize her yet.
This second life, Xiaozhen chooses cruelty over mercy. Wearing the innocence of her former self like silk armor, she smiles, obeys, and allows her broken engagement to be restored. Every step is calculated. Every word is bait. The court believes her unchanged.
They are wrong.
Her revenge is not only for herself, but for the child who never lived to see the world.
Yet fate introduces an anomaly-the Six-Eared Macaque. Unpredictable, sharp-tongued, and far too perceptive, he watches from the shadows with eyes that seem to pierce both lifetimes. He is neither ally nor enemy, neither pawn nor master.
As secrets resurface and blood debts awaken, Xiaozhen walks the narrow path between control and ruin. In a world where destiny has already failed her once, she must decide-
Will she bend fate to her will...
or will the one who hears all truths expose the lies she lives by?