Synopsis：On my eighteenth birthday, the High King once again summoned the heirs of the four great clans—Vampires, Werewolves, the High Serpent Clan, and the Merfolk. He laid their portraits before me and ordered me to choose a partner for a marriage alliance. In my previous life, I chose exactly who everyone expected—the one I had chased for seven years: Alpha Iris, heir to the most powerful Lycan bloodline. I groveled after him, confessed in front of the royal court, even slit my wrist in a blood vow just to earn the right to be his bride. After our wedding, he used our union to seize control of all four clans—then turned around and marked my adopted sister as his true mate. From that moment on, he despised me. He gathered women who all resembled her, letting them humiliate and torment me until the queen of the realm became its favorite joke. Crushed by betrayal and abuse, I relied on suppressants to keep my wolf from losing control… until the medicine was quietly switched to slow-acting poison—by his hand. I died alone in a frozen palace, with a child still forming in my womb. But fate rewound. Given a second life, I refuse to walk the same doomed path. So when the High King once more placed the four portraits before me, I did not even glance at Iris. I pointed instead to Damon—the lowborn werewolf from the forgotten borderlands, the one nobody ever bothered to notice. This time, I will rewrite my destiny—and the fate of all four clans.