The Ugly Weeper

"In my first life, I was a brilliant student crushed by a broken system. In my second, I am a Princess marked for execution by her own husband."

Aenia died under the weight of expectations, only to wake up as Princess Anrianah, the "Ugly Weeper" of a treacherous empire. Her new life comes with a crown, a cold-blooded husband-the Crown Prince-and a target on her back. He doesn't just hate her; he wants her dead.

But Aenia is no longer the girl who breaks. Using her knowledge of psychology and shadow-strategy, she navigates a court of poison and politics. By day, she is the "Ugly" Princess; by night, she is Ae, a masked revolutionary changing the empire's culture through forbidden books.

As the Prince begins to fall for the mind he once tried to destroy, a darker conspiracy emerges. In a world of gilded cages and lethal secrets, Aenia must decide: Will she save the empire, or let it burn with her?

Death was her beginning. The universe is her next target.