Raised as a political hostage in the imperial palace, Freya Moore—heiress to a legendary family of mechanists—is a pawn in the crown’s game. In her first life, she trusted Crown Prince Alan with the secret to her family’s greatest invention, only to be betrayed and see her lineage destroyed. Given a second chance, Freya rewrites her destiny with a single, defiant choice: she rejects the crown prince and instead marries his overlooked younger brother, Cyril Elmer. Now, with the gears of fate reset, Freya must outmaneuver the court’s schemes, protect her family’s legacy, and navigate a marriage of unexpected alliance—where the key to her future may lie not in revenge, but in the quiet strength of the prince she never thought to choose.
