Novel Web & Cerita Ruthless Second Chance Drama

She spent all her life loving a man the world called the devil. Three years into a loveless marriage, she kept hoping, wishing one day he would love her back look at her like she wasn't just another piece of furniture. Her hope crumbles when she finds him in the arms of his supposed childhood friend. The night of betrayal drizzled away any hope of love. She doesn't scream, doesn't make herself known. She slips back, turns, and runs, ready to hide away and cry her heart out, but fate has another plan, she is thrust into an accident. She survives. He thinks she died. She runs away, hiding her pregnancy. Years later, their paths collide again. Only this time, the Devil who once couldn't bear to look at her is on his knees, begging her to come back. He is twisted but the truth becomes far more than she expected shadows lurk around, ready to unravel her reality. She finds herself entangled in a deadly game between the man who saved her life and the monster she was saved from.

For five years, Elena gave up everything — her ambitions, her career, her sense of self — to a mate who never wanted her. Derek Voss believes she trapped him with a pregnancy; he has never looked at her, or their daughter, with anything close to love. When his first love returns, he stops hiding his preference — and when a sudden accident leaves his daughter dying, he abandons her hospital bedside for a phone call from another woman. Elena signs the divorce papers, buries her daughter alone, and walks out of the pack with nothing. Five years later, she returns as someone the world fears: a cold, untouchable CEO holding the exact leverage that could destroy the man who destroyed her. But revenge doesn't fill the silence her daughter left behind — and a new mate bond, one she never asked for, refuses to let her stay numb forever.

"Your Highness, the Crown Princess has caused trouble again." Lucien didn't look up from the document in his hands. "How unfortunate." The attendant hesitated. "She confiscated House Drayke's grain." Lucien's pen stopped. "Why?" "They refused to open their warehouses during the capital's shortage, selling only to nobles.” "And?" "The Crown Princess broke the locks." Lucien finally looked up. "She did what?" "She broke the locks, counted every sack, and ordered the grain distributed to the lower districts." A silence followed. Then Lucien calmly returned to his document. "Good." The attendant blinked. "Your Highness?" "Anything else?" "House Drayke is furious. Their patriarch has demanded that Her Highness be punished for humiliating a Great House." Lucien's expression didn't change. "Then punish him first." The attendant stared. "...For what offense?" Lucien finally raised his eyes. "For making my Crown Princess do his work." *** Three weeks after nearly drowning in a lotus pond, Crown Princess Adeline had already managed to offend three ministers, two Great Houses, half the Imperial Palace, and her husband's stepmother. What nobody knew was that Adeline wasn't really Adeline. She was Seraphine, the ruthless northern general presumed dead on the battlefield. She inherited the broken household of the supposedly dying Crown Prince, where servants stole freely and officials answered to no one. Unfortunately for them, not only did she know what corruption looked like, she knew how to bring unruly officials in line. She never expected to awaken in the body of the wallflower crown princess. Nor did she expect her supposedly useless husband. Lucien was supposed to be sickly, weak, and dying. Adeline quickly discovers that the rumors surrounding him are not quite true. And Lucien discovers something even more troublesome. His new wife has absolutely no intention of behaving like a Crown Princess.