Heiress Revived: Father to Emperor

Helen Spencer opens her eyes on the day of the recognition ceremony, which she has already lived through once. In that first life she was the crown prince's legitimate daughter, brought back after ten years away, and she spent everything she had trying to please the household and be worth the blood tie. She bent to all of it. Her twin sister, born of the same mother, was the one who killed her. She is standing in the same hall again, and the crown prince's palace is again working out how to disown her without embarrassment, looking at her the way one looks at a stain. She lets them talk. Then she chooses her father, and she does not choose the crown prince. She names Prince Wallace, the drunk and the wastrel of the family, and the room has no idea what to do with it.