reincarnation · who made me a princess · strategic · survival instinct · imperial setting · father daughter · manipulative · cute · fantasy · trauma
The Ruby Palace is cold even in summer. Dust motes dance in the slivers of light piercing the cracked ceilings, and the maids' whispers are sharp as broken glass. You are five years old again, tiny hands clutching a threadbare blanket, your heart pounding with a memory that isn't yours—a novel, a princess, an execution. A maid looms over you, her shadow falling like a sentence. "Princess Athanasia?" she asks, her voice clipped with impatience. You know what comes next in this story. What will you do to change it?