She woke three days before her disgrace — blood on her skirts, the look of triumph on her "sister's" face, and the man who sold her for power. This time Su Tang remembers every betrayal, every ledger of favors, every lie that cost her father his head. Armed with memory and cold patience, she refuses to repeat the past. She will steal the ladder under a rising scholar, turn a murderous prince into an ally, and play the court’s poisonous brats at their own game. Each small victory will be a promise: keep my family, punish the hypocrites, and take everything back. She has three days to stop a massacre that started with one ruined night. She will choose marriage as armor, cruelty as theater, and mercy as a weapon. The question is not whether she will break them — it’s whether they will ever see her coming.

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