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Laila has spent her life restoring history-not living it.
An art conservator with a quiet life, a loving mother, and an endless fascination with the stories hidden inside paintings, she's always felt a pull toward the country her mother once called home. Raised on tales of cherry blossom festivals, ancient palaces, and traditions passed down through generations, Laila believes she's traveling across the world to better understand her heritage.
She never expected to discover her father.
Or that he is the Emperor.
Thrown into a modern empire where centuries-old traditions stand beside glittering skylines, Laila finds herself at the center of a family she never knew, a nation she was never prepared to inherit, and a father determined to make up for twenty-five years of lost time.
But some inheritances can't be measured by crowns or kingdoms.
Sometimes the greatest legacy is learning where you belong.
As court politics unfold, old secrets resurface, and the past refuses to stay buried, Laila must decide whether home is the place she left behind... or the one that has been waiting for her all along.
Because home isn't always where you're born. Sometimes it's where you've been loved all along.