She died watching her family be butchered — then woke up in the body of the idiot bride no one took seriously. Valentina remembers everything: the poisoned teacup, the staged suicide, the five-splintered corpse. She remembers the face that smiled while the nation hung her blood on a hook. This time she will not be the weak fool. Reborn inside Mu Jiuyou’s small, mocked body, Valentina learns to turn 'stupidity' into camouflage. She smiles like a child, plays the fool in the hall, but sharpens knives in secret. She steals back a weapon that refuses to leave her hand, she makes a prince kneel, she ruins a concubine in public — and she leaves clues that point to the real butcher of her house. Harbor City is a court full of snakes: an ambitious prince, a merciless regent, and a woman with a dead genius's memory. When the new Saint-Envoy contest hands her a dragon-jade prize and a marked throne of enemies, the game becomes visible. Revenge is delicious — but it is also a trap. And someone who buried her body years ago is watching close enough to recognize her voice.

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