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My Fist, My FateAfter his sworn brother Leonard's jealousy ends both their lives, Luke awakens fifteen years in the past with a chance to walk the martial path again. Leonard also remembers their former life and rushes to claim the master he credits for Luke's success, leaving Luke to study under the seemingly unremarkable Ning Wanqiu. Yet Ning may be a hidden legend, while Leonard's coveted teacher Chang Kui exploits his own disciples, setting the reborn rivals on sharply different courses.
Awake to LoveShelley Quaile raised Henry Julius as her own son. Her biological son, Howard Julius, had gone missing when he was very small, and everything she would have given Howard went to Henry instead, including the family company, which she chaired and planned to hand to him. Howard was found and came home years later. Shelley went on favouring Henry. She found out what Henry was only when he set about killing her, and the next thing she knew it was three years earlier.
This time she rewrote the will so that the company would go to Howard, and she made Henry's crimes public. The rest of the Julius family kept its trust in Henry all the same.
Fall for ItIn her past life, Anna Stacy was wrongfully blamed for her sister Karen's miscarriage and murdered by Karen's husband, Brian Wood. Reborn on the day of the tragedy, Anna's determined to change her fate and outsmart those who betrayed her. Will she survive this second chance?
Little Kung Fu QueenKung Fu Queen Leslie Lewis awakens in the body of Lindsey Yeats, daughter of her deceased disciple. She uses the master's techniques hidden inside the seemingly fragile young woman to stop relatives trying to seize the family dojo. Then Landon Henry and other challengers invade for the treasured Stormlash, giving Leslie another battle for her disciple's legacy.
Empress of ShadowsClara Baker helps Prince Ethan reach the imperial throne in her first life, but her political innocence leaves her defeated, discarded, and killed in prison. Reborn ten years earlier, she replaces devotion with preparation: studying dance and seduction, running a tavern, and building a private network of power. This time she intends to command the prince's heart without surrendering her own and claim the empress's crown herself.
Reset: Game of AbductionReborn after being killed protecting her sister from a trafficker, Savannah uses her knowledge to build a billion-dollar empire!
Star-Crossed ImmortalsIn her past life,Cordelia endured hardships to become an immortal and married a celestial official,living merrily —yet her best friend , Seraphina consumed by jealousy, murdered her. They were both reborn by divine mercy.This time, Cordelia choseto marry the humble gate keeper Alexander with a mysterious background and Seraphina became a vengeful wife. With the divine heritage awakening, their fate was changed again...
Yandere Husband's Supreme FavorReborn after being trapped in possessive love, the wife uses wisdom and courage to escape her tragic fate of being exploited and hurt in her past life. She and her husband resolve misunderstandings and grow deeply attached, facing family and emotional hardships side by side. In the end, she takes revenge successfully, exposes the schemes of her sister Yan Yue and Ji Nanci, and claims victory in both family affairs and love.
Reborn to Find I Am the Mogul's Lost LoveSerena Miller had just handed her company over to Ethan Moore — and the moment he got it, he tried to run her down with a car so he could marry Carol. Ethan was the son of the Miller family's servant. Serena loved him, pitied his poor background, and treated him like family. He enjoyed everything she gave him — but for his own desires, he killed her mother, drained her of everything, and then ran her over with a car… Only on her deathbed did she learn that William Dupont, the man she had rejected as an arranged marriage match, had loved her all along. Reborn, Serena decides to cherish William and make Ethan pay for every drop of blood. She plays along with Ethan's act, letting him walk step by step toward his own destruction — without ever realizing it…
Rebirth in Blood and MoonlightBetrayed in her past life, Emma Shawn chooses to be a widow rather than a bride, defying her ruthless family and burning her own wedding gown. But when the whip falls, the ‘dead’ General Oliver Sterling returns with a royal decree. Who is this woman truly mourning? And why does the Emperor himself watch their every move?
The Beggar King’s BrideAt a bridal ball toss, two sisters choose their husbands: the elder marries a nobleman and later gains honor, while the younger is matched with a beggar, flees, and suffers. Jealous of her sister, the younger kills her on the day of her ennoblement, but both return to the day of the ball toss. The younger claims the nobleman and manipulates the elder into marrying the beggar, not knowing that he is the emperor in disguise; the elder chooses a quiet life with him, and his love eventually raises her to empress.
Truth After RebirthReborn at the moment her husband Logan Zeal, friend Nancy Ross, and pregnant Lydia Lark framed her for murder, Mary Zeal vows to change her fate. In her previous life, she was accused of causing two deaths after refusing Lydia a ride and was killed; this time, even swapping cars with the mysterious Judith Lane fails to free her from the conspiracy. As witnesses and investigators expose forged evidence, Mary uncovers Logan's affair and illegitimate child and brings the plotters to justice.
Your Emperor Is BackIn my past life, I was a loser emperor, tricked into surrendering land and forced to sacrifice my empress for peace, only to watch her choose death over betrayal. Her suicide became my greatest regret, and I ended up killed by our daughter. But fate has given me a second chance. This time, I will protect my family at all costs...
Father's a PushoverReborn with a mission, Olivia Summers is determined to change her father’s fate, shaped by repeated betrayal for his kindness. She exposes Joanna’s scheme, clearing his name. But Joanna fights back with new lies. With intelligence and evidence, can Summers uncover the truth? Will her father realize that kindness must have limits? Will the wicked finally face justice?
Scratch Your FateOlivia White handed out scratch-off lottery tickets, and one of them reached Laura Davis on her birthday. Everything after that came apart. Her fiancé James Carter was killed in a car crash, her younger brother drowned, her parents broke off relations with her and then died in an accident of their own, and Laura was driven to suicide.
She woke again on the morning James proposed. She destroyed the ticket straight away. James was hit by a car anyway, though the surgery on him worked. Her family turned strange after that, doing whatever Olivia told them and moving to cut Laura off, so Laura and James started looking into why.
Olivia had used the tickets to arrange the crash and to put about a claim that Laura had HIV. James bought up every scratch-off card in the city to keep them out of her hands, and the hold on Laura's family loosened. Then Laura brought her evidence home, and Olivia took the family back.
Swapped My Spirit Beast, Now She RegretsSerena dies at her coronation after her sister Ruby conspires with Felix, the spirit who should have served her. Reborn at the earlier spirit-selection rite, she finds that both traitors remember their past life and intend to saddle her with Ruby's supposedly weak familiar. Serena accepts Lance, nurtures his hidden potential until he takes human form, and fights her way back toward the throne stolen from her.
Second Life, Lost EverythingThe housekeeper Shane's father loved died in an accident, and he decided it was Shane's doing. Shane had driven the woman out of the house not long before, over his objections. He killed his daughter for it with his own hands.
Both of them wake up on the day Shane was going to send the housekeeper away. This time Shane leaves the woman alone. She cuts the father and daughter tie and stays out of his affairs, which leaves the housekeeper free to work on him and take his property piece by piece. He comes to regret it.
Rewind to LoveTheodore spent his whole married life believing the wrong thing about who in that house cared for him. It was his wife's younger sister, and he was kept from knowing it. His wife and his mother-in-law put him out of the house at the end of a working life, and only when he was dying did he learn the truth, along with the fact that the sister had died because of him.
Then he opened his eyes in the early 1980s, on the morning of his first wedding. He was on his way to collect the woman he had married, and none of what he remembered had happened yet.
I'll Make My Abusive Husband PayBrutal Xander beats his wife Lysandra to spleen bleeding, but god gives Lysandra a second chance to make the scumbag bear the due guilt!
Silent Goodbye, Unseen ReturnSelene Moore's mother has not looked at her in years. After the divorce the mother remarried and had a second daughter with her new husband, and that girl got all of her attention. Selene was left with her grandmother and grew up in her house. Then Selene is kidnapped and dies. She opens her eyes in the body of Caroline Lewis, the daughter of the family that owns the Lewis Group. She intends to use Caroline's name and position to take her revenge. Her mother does not know that Selene is dead.
Olympic Soccer the Reborn ChampionWinston played for the Yellow Horse Club and he was their star. He asked about a move to the Xiadom national side, and for that the club had him killed.
He wakes up alive again. This time he turns the Yellow Horse Club's invitation down and shows up at the Xiadom trials for the Olympic squad instead. The national team put obstacles in front of him and work against him behind his back, and he makes the squad anyway on ability nobody there can match. He goes to the Olympics for Xiadom and beats the sides put in front of him.
The Silent TranscriptEleanor watches her sister steal her university admission letter and quietly reports the fraud to the education authorities. She has returned to the day her future was taken: in her first life, her parents sold her into an abusive marriage to fund the sister who used her place at university.
Reborn to Save My DaughterIn order to seek justice for her daughter, Bella Smith barges into her son-in-law David Parker's house with a knife in hand, only to be brutally murdered as her plan backfires. By the time she awakens, she finds herself three days back in time, just before her daughter's wedding. Determined to stop the marriage at all costs, she engages in a battle of wits with her daughter's boyfriend.
Destined PathsSarah had a newborn daughter, and on the night before the lunar New Year she picked the baby up and ran to her parents' house to get away from a husband who beat her. Her husband's family came after her there. They beat her until she could not get up, and they took the baby away with them.
Inside, the house filled up for the new year while Sarah was left outside in the snow. What she said to herself before the bells was that if there was another life she would not go quietly to the slaughter a second time. The bells rang and she lost consciousness. She opened her eyes five years in the past.
Sky-High Payback See Ya*DUBBED* The traffic controller Harrison is framed for misconduct by his wife and best friend—reborn, he unravels their conspiracy!
The Rise from RuinIn the Stewart village, land is being cleared and the households are paid compensation for it. Arthur Stewart, the eldest son, comes into a large sum that way, and because he is soft about family he hands money out to his brothers freely. When he falls seriously ill and asks for it back, they mock him instead. His son Gavin watches his parents go, sinks into depression, and then finds himself back in time, before the demolition.
Gavin has his father pretend the family is bankrupt so the relatives will show what they are. The news gets around and the uncles turn on them, pressing and humiliating the family. The second and third uncles use the grandmother, who favours them, to drag Arthur out and beat him in front of the children and force an apology from him. Arthur, angry and worn down, hands over the land deed. Gavin has already seen the plan coming and has donated the entire compensation, so the deed the uncles collect is a sheet of paper worth nothing.
They turn to the merit stele at the ancestral hall next. At the unveiling the two uncles work together to attack the family in public, saying they will strike Arthur's household from the genealogy and drive them out of the village.
Reborn to Build, Not to BegIvy Blake is reborn in the 1980s after her husband locks her in a mental hospital. In her past life, she nearly went insane over him. Now she leaves him, builds a real estate empire, and becomes top property queen. Her ex begs to reconcile, but she chooses Miles Carter.
Vengeance of the Tech-Powered Crown PrinceThe third prince and Selene took the credit for the work Alexander had done at court and then had him killed for it. Alexander had come from the modern world into Great Zhou and woken up in the body of its crown prince, and he had been using what he knew of later centuries to pull the country out of the state it was in.
He woke again on the night before the coup. The piece of jade he carried turned out to be able to call up modern technology, which he had not known about the first time round. He took the direct route after that, going at his enemies with force and leaving them no room. A crisis on the barbarian frontier came up in the middle of it and he dealt with that without much difficulty. Then something went wrong back at the palace and he returned for it.
Through the Odds, I'm the Last One StandingSun Lily wanted the promotion, so she pinned a medical accident on Foria Shawn, who had trained at the same medical school and worked at the same hospital along with three men from their year. Foria explained herself and none of them believed her, and she killed herself to prove she had done nothing wrong. Fu Sinian reached her too late, having stepped in as her fiance through her family without her knowing.
Furia wakes ten years earlier, back among Sun Lily and the three seniors. She decides to stop trying to please them and to look after herself. She publishes the same thesis in a well known journal, and Sun Lily cannot show the work is hers and is dressed down by the director in front of the three. Foria leaves that team and later joins the one Fu Sinian runs.
Reborn to Crowned LoveShirley Shaw is living through a day she has already had once. Ray Perry is the chauffeur's son. She had him in the car with her every morning, let him spend on her card, signed the company over to him, and he took all of it while he was seeing other women. She was humiliated in front of everyone she knew by the end of it, she was ill, and there was a fire she was not meant to come out of. The one thing she had not known was that the young master of an old family in the capital, whom she had turned down over and over, had wanted her the whole time.
She is back before any of it happened. Ray has nothing yet, and the company is still in her name.
Reborn to Revenge My Evil Foster DaughterMorgana raised an adopted daughter and favored her over her biological daughter, whom she drove out of the house. The adopted daughter later took Morgana's fortune of a hundred billion, leaving her with nothing. Morgana was left to starve.
She is then reborn into her earlier life. She sets out to make the adopted daughter answer for what she took, and to make up for what she did to her own daughter.
No More Tears for HimAnnabel Fisher, a talented beauty from a prestigious family, agrees to her aunt's arrangement and marries the fourth prince, Arthur Shaw—a man every woman in the city dreams of. Yet, her marriage brings only cold indifference, leading to years of suffering and ultimately a tragic death. Reborn with a second chance, Annabel refuses to marry Arthur, determined to find a man who truly loves her.
A Wife's Rising RoadA daughter born to a concubine can be sent along when her elder sister marries, to enter the husband's house as his concubine and help the wife keep his favor. That is how she was married off the first time. She spent that life working to keep her sister in the husband's affections. It ended with her parted from her own child and buried alive in a common grave. Then she is back on the morning the two sisters are to be wed. She has been kept down for eighteen years as the concubine's daughter, and she swears this time to hold her own fate. She plans each step, meaning to go from concubine to a wife of equal standing, and after that to be the general's lady with the household under her control.
Love and LuckSomebody in heaven keeps the account of each person's fortune, and part of that work is handed to trainees. Natalie Smith was on her first day of it when she made an error on Ethan Howard's account and took his fortune down to zero.
His company went under and he ended up selling from a stall in the street. Natalie came down to the mortal world to put the fortune back, with a deadline set for her from above and only part of the power the job asked for, so her first attempts made things worse. A businessman and a woman who wanted the patents moved on what was left of the company while she worked. There was a patent document other people were after, an office she got into at night, a selling contest against a rival firm run over a livestream. Her feelings for Ethan grew while this went on.
Lies in WhiteFramed by her husband, Ethan Lewis, and best friend, Fiona Lee, Dr. Cynthia Scott took the blame for a failed surgery that led to Grace Zell’s death. Enraged, Leo Shaw killed her. Reborn before the surgery, Cynthia planned carefully to save Grace. The surgery succeeded, yet Fiona claimed Grace still died. Desperate to prove her innocence, Cynthia checked the hospital’s surveillance footage—only to see a chilling truth: the one responsible was herself? Is that really the truth?
Rebirth in the ApocalypseNadia didn't expect that it was not the acid rain that killed her in the apocalypse, but her beloved boyfriend and cousin! Now, she's given a second chance and equipped with magic touch of space!
A Mother's Second Chance at HappinessLisa White was reborn into her second son Matthew Harris's home years ago. Her daughter-in-law Betty remained manipulative, her in-law toxic, and her son unfilial. Last life, Lisa endured everything for family harmony but died from abuse. This life, she left home, made money using future knowledge, and lived with her old friend.
Rise from the AshesLeah Stein has cut every tie to her old sect and is training in Apathia, the path that severs feeling, with her junior master helping her. She had given everything she had to that master and her three seniors and been overlooked for it, then expelled on a false accusation made by a junior disciple, and she died for it.
The three seniors find out afterwards what she had actually done for them and how she had been treated. They come to her again and again asking her to return. She will not forgive them. She gets Apathia under her control, and with her junior master and disciples from her new sect she settles accounts with the old one.
Betrayed by Family, I'm a Rich Woman NowIsabelle caught the guest Shannon stealing valuables, which has brought Isabelle the fatal disaster. Being granted a second chance, Isabelle leaves the family that hurts her deeply but then her family chases after her!
From Pawn to QueenAnastasia sacrificed everything for Montgomery, including her legs. Yet she discovers that it was all a lie on the day of her death. Now, with a second chance at life, she sees Montgomery misusing her credit card, living in her house, and managing her company, so she turns to Benedict, who adored her in her past life!
Heirs' Vengeance PloyShe misunderstood her husband's uncle who rescued her in her last life, but now, she comes back with a clear mind!
Heirness's AngerYara Jenkins is the Jenkins family's own daughter, and she does everything she can think of to please them. Marina Jenkins, the girl they adopted, is the one the family prefers, and nothing Yara does closes the gap. What Yara gets is coldness, neglect and a set of ideas about her that nobody in the house ever checks. She lives there like an outsider and takes it for years. In the end the family turns her out, and she dies at Marina's hands.
Then she is alive again. This time she cuts the family off and goes back to the adoptive parents who raised her. After she has gone, her older brother Hector Jenkins begins to find out what she put up with in that house all those years.
Gone WifeA car went into the water with Evie in it. Her husband and his close friend Beatris put it there.
Evie was the older of twins. The younger one, Jean, is an heiress and had been living abroad, and she came home when the news reached her. At the funeral Jean took her sister's place in the coffin and let the room see her sit up, so that as far as everyone in the house was concerned Evie had not died after all.
Jean kept the name and went at the question of what had been done to her sister. People in the house put things in her way. What she turned up went deeper than the two who had been in the car.
Rags to RichesSusan Don wanted to keep the lottery money she had won. In her first life it was one million, and her stepsister Belle Don and Belle's family killed her for it. She died with that unfinished and woke up again on the morning of the draw, and this time the prize is ten billion. She tells nobody she has won. Around the same time she marries the head of Haw's Enterprises in a hurry, without knowing that he is hiding who he is as well, and she starts settling accounts with the people who came after her the first time.
Brave Fighting MotherSerena Smith was framed for doping. She was the daughter of the Smith family and had been on her way to becoming the boxing champion, and the accusation ended that. She left with her daughter Daisy and stayed away for years.
Daisy grew up wanting one thing, which was proof that would clear her mother's name. Ryker Smith, the son of the man the Smiths had adopted, used that against her. He tricked her into the octagon cage, where she was humiliated and beaten badly enough to put her in a hospital bed.
Serena came to the hospital and saw the state Daisy was in. She decided that this time she would not give way. The doping case from all those years before started to come back into the open.
Phoenix In The CageOn the fifth anniversary of her marriage to Benson Snyder, Tina Swann was brutally murdered by her husband and his mistress, Eleanor Lee. She discovered the shocking truth: Benson was not infertile, and the adopted child she had painstakingly raised was actually Benson and Eleanor's. Her five years of marriage had been a stepping stone for Benson's success. As she died in despair, she suddenly found herself reborn three months earlier. In this life, can she change her fate and exact her revenge?
Curves of DestinyThere are years Isabella Yale cannot get back to. A car accident on a work trip abroad took her memory, and the hormones in the drugs she was given in surgery put a lot of weight on her. She goes home and opens a shop selling stuffed buns.
The man she is with is in it for her money. He is sleeping with her closest friend, and when she catches him he denies it and beats her. The beating brings the memory back, all of it. Isabella founded the Poseidon Group. She starts taking the weight off and moves to get back into the company and to deal with him.
The Endgame FortressChris wakes up three days before the virus outbreak. He is a delivery driver, and the last time he lived through these days most of the world was infected and he and his daughter were left fighting to stay alive among the zombies. He trusted the woman he had married, and that is what got the two of them killed and eaten by the infected. This time he knows what is ahead. He means to make the people who got them killed pay, the woman among them, but the first thing he does is start on a fortified shelter and stockpile supplies so that his daughter will live through the end of the world.
Home TemptationClaudia Grey gave up her home and married far from her family, and she has just had a baby. Her husband Gregory Miller starts behaving oddly. Phone calls come late at night, and she smells perfume on him that is not hers. Small things pile up until she is fairly sure he has betrayed her. She asks her close friend Lucy Parker for help and the two of them start looking into where Gregory has been going. They find photographs of him with a young woman and the record of his calls to her. Claudia now has to decide what she is going to do with a marriage she moved a thousand miles for.
Fisherman's Last WishThe best fisherman ever, Joshua Brown, at the age of 50, was awarded the Global Fishing Lifetime Achievement Award. However, during the celebration party, his daughter showed up and accused him of having caused Sarah 's death due to his involvement in fish gambling. Overcome with guilt, Joshua suffered a heart attack. His last wish was to go back to 1990 and give his wife a happy life. Magically, he actually traveled back to that day before his wife had commited suicide...
The DaughterZach Chook's son Geo died in an accident. Zach held his daughter Sybil responsible for it and refused to help her when she was in trouble later on, and Sybil died in a car crash.
The two of them then found themselves three years earlier. Geo talked his father into taking on a large debt and into signing as the legal representative of a property company. Sybil told him not to do it and he ignored her, so she went to live with her uncle and started over on her own.
At the banquet held to mark the appointment, Zach found out what the paperwork actually committed him to. Creditors came for the money. He tried to pass the debt to Sybil. Geo attacked him and left him with injuries that put him in a coma. While Zach was unconscious, Geo and his mother put out a public account of events that blamed Sybil.
Goodbye, Brother's KeeperHarry Carter, an honest man, works tirelessly as a delivery person to support his family. His wife, Della Gale, spends their savings on her brother, diverting money meant for Harry's mother's medical care for her brother's travel. After his mother's death and a heart attack, Harry wakes up ten years in the past. Determined to change his fate, he divorces Della, starts a business, and achieves success through hard work and wisdom.
Tick TockVivian marries into the Forrest family in a sham marriage, for the money. The family owns a mine, and she plants a bomb in it to collect the insurance, and the explosion kills the Forrests, Grace among them. Grace learns what Vivian did only as she is dying.
Then she wakes, and it is three days before the explosion. She sets out to stop it and to expose Vivian. Her parents dote on their son and are just as fond of his wife, and they will not hear a word against her. The miners laugh at her. While she is trying to get anyone to listen she finds out that the family she is trying to save is no blood relation of hers, and that the one clue she has to her birth mother is a small curved bead. She goes on trying to protect them anyway. The bomb is on a timer. Vivian and her accomplice have left traces of the sham marriage and the insurance scheme behind them, and Grace goes after those.
Simp Master's Second ChanceZachary Spencer, Young Master of Destin Group, was once a loyal simp to Mira, offering her money, fame, and power, only to be betrayed, cheated on, infected with syphilis, and left to die on the streets with an illegitimate child to her name. On his deathbed, he realized his true love was Shira, the heiress of Donato Group. Reborn, he vows to seek true love, take revenge on those who wronged him, and reclaim everything he lost—starting with a single meal...
Betrayed by BelovedDarcy Allen divorced Deek and then stayed on in his house as a nanny for eighteen years so she could go on raising her three daughters. Deek married again. His new wife Karen was taking things out of the house and passing them to the man she was seeing. Darcy found out and said so. Karen and the man turned the accusation back on her, and Darcy's own daughters threw her out of the house. Karen and the man then ran her over with a car. Darcy came back years into the past, to a point before all of it. This time she left the house instead of staying, went into business for herself and made money. The daughters learned in time what their mother had done for them over the eighteen years. Deek lost everything he had and understood what he had got wrong. They came to Darcy asking her to come back and help.
Deadly Cold WaveBetrayed and left for dead by his wife and her family during a brutal apocalyptic cold wave—only to learn the child she carries isn't even his—Phil Stark awakens one month before the deadly storm strikes. Armed with knowledge of the future and a burning resolve, he cuts ties with his treacherous past, warns a disbelieving world, and begins building a sanctuary. As the cold wave looms closer, will he rise as a savior—or face humanity's icy end once again?
After the Divorce, I Ended My Ex-HusbandIn the life before this one she wanted to stay married, and she would not sign. Her husband Matthew and their daughter killed her over it.
She opens her eyes on the day that started it. Matthew is in front of her with his mistress, asking for the divorce, and the reason he gives is that the woman has three months left and should have a family before then. He promises to remarry his wife once the woman is gone. This time she agrees straight away. Her terms are that every asset in the family comes to her and that she will not contest custody of the daughter. Matthew accepts, but he holds on to one thing, the pottery museum he has given half his life to. He does not know that her father built it, or that the career he is proud of was put together by her family. Once the divorce is public the things he had been counting on come apart, and he sees what he gave up.
Game of PowerReborn after the Wu family abused him, Li Mu cuts them off and allies with Prime Minister Zhang to survive a crisis surrounding the imperial examinations. The partnership draws him into a succession struggle, where battle and strategy help the fifth prince take the throne and carry Li Mu from discarded victim to prime minister.
The Heiress’s Revenge: From Princess to AvengerOscar Hayes, crown prince of Daxia, made vows of love to Melanie Griffin and let her work herself to the bone putting him on the throne. Once he was emperor, he joined with others to have her killed.
She was badly wounded. Before she lost consciousness she saw Albert Hayes, the Fourth Prince, who had ridden back from the frontier, and understood for the first time that he had been quietly looking out for her all along.
She wakes in the time before Oscar's accession, and this time she means to keep him from trapping her. Oscar has been adding a slow poison to the medicine sent to the emperor each day. Melanie's mother was a skilled physician and left her antidote pills, and Melanie uses them to clear the poison from the emperor's body. From there she and Albert work together to bring Oscar's plan to take the throne into the open.
Twilight RevengeIn the general's household there are two daughters, one born to the general's wife and one to a concubine, and it is the second who is mistreated for years, until she has a lung disease. That daughter is Serena Harrington. At her coming-of-age ceremony she asks for help. Her half-sister turns the request into a trap, and Serena is made to kneel in the snow as a punishment and dies there.
She comes back to life in the same house with no more illusions about it. There is an affair over a map of the border defenses, and Serena deliberately hands her half-sister a copy with holes in it. When the emperor examines the map, Serena uses the occasion to cut her ties with the general's household in front of him and takes the surname of her adoptive mother. Her half-sister tries slander next. Serena has laid her plans ahead of time, comes away with an imperial edict that puts her under the emperor's protection, and the household is punished. The general's son tries to shame her at the military examination and fails. Her half-sister and a daughter of the duke's house lean on their families' standing to pick quarrels with her, and then they carry off her adoptive mother, who is the Empress Dowager living unrecognized among ordinary people. The emperor and the people around him are angered by it.