I bolted upright in bed, gasping for breath, my forehead slick with tiny beads of sweat that dampened the hair at my temples. Before me was a carved bed that felt both familiar and strange. Gauze curtains hung softly around it, and everything in the room was exactly as it had been five years ago. "I... I'm reborn?" I murmured in disbelief, my voice still trembling. Memories of my previous life surged over me like a raging tide, bringing back a past steeped in blood, tears, and humiliation. As the most beloved princess in the Great Shun dynasty, I should have enjoyed a life of luxury and prosperity, free from worry. But my mother's selfish greed and my younger brother's treachery...
