The crown system: four kings bound to me
Since I had no choice but to accept my unfortunate reality, I sat up and exhaled slowly.
My name is Aurelia Ashbourne, and I died once. Strange way to introduce myself, I know, but it is the simplest explanation for why my life has never been normal. In my previous life, I was just an ordinary university student. I loved fantasy novels, hated deadlines, and had the bad habit of reading until dawn while promising myself I would sleep early the next night. Nothing about me was special. I had no magical bloodline, no hidden genius, no dramatic destiny—at least not that I knew of. Then one day, because of a single mistake I still regret, everything ended. I died… and woke up as a baby in another