For ten years, Gwen Harlow suppressed her forbidden Witch-Wolf magic to be the perfect Luna for Lucien Blackfang. Her reward? A silver dagger to the heart, twisted by the very man she lived for—all to make room for her treacherous sister, Sienna.

But death was not the end.

Granted a second chance by the Moon Goddess, Gwen wakes up ten years in the past, on the day of her joining ceremony. This time, she won't kneel to the man who killed her. Instead, she walks past a stunned Lucien and chooses Kaelen, the ‘Cursed Alpha’ feared by the entire world.

Lucien thought he was discarding a burden, never realizing that Gwen’s secret magic was the only thing keeping him alive. Now, as Lucien begins to rot without his silent protector, Gwen rises as a sovereign of shadows, ready to burn his empire to the ground.

"Once, I died for you. Now, I live for your ruin."

The sky above the shattered limestone terraces of the Floating Palace was no longer a horizontal chasm of platinum fire. It had broken completely. The deep geocentric engine beneath the marble foundations groaned, a low, tectonic rattle that caused the mirror-polished obsidian floor to split into a thousand jagged, smoking veins. The liquid gold code of Saint Aurelius was still pooling in the fissures, sizzling against the grey soot, but the central logic spindle had begun its final, unguided acceleration toward the zero-state.


Chapter 197 - THE CALIBRATION OF THE THREE CARDIAC NODES