
Adeline Cole remembers the winter snow when she knelt outside her husband’s house and everything she loved was taken: her name, her children, her dignity. In her last life she raised a pair of dragon-and-phoenix infants with a heart that believed and a neck that knelt — only to be framed, stripped, and broken when the truth about heredity and betrayal came out. Reborn into the night before disaster, Adeline wakes with a baby already in her arms and one clear vow: this time she will not be the one who bleeds for other people's ambition. She will teach her enemies to fear her patience. She will turn favors into traps and mercy into a blade. She will raise a rightful heir while breaking the household that plotted her ruin. But the path from a quiet, clever revenge to the very top of the court is paved with harder choices — exposing beloved’s treacheries, trading soft mercy for cold justice, and risking the child she loves most for a crown the realm needs. Can one woman rewrite the fate of a dynasty without becoming the monster she fears? Or will the memory of snow and the taste of retribution drown everything she once hoped to save?

19 Chapters