Jinkyo

Arsinoe knows a few things about redos. Her first three lives all followed the same tragic script: born the scorned daughter of an enslaved queen, married to a crown prince as charming as he is cruel, and driven to death by the very man she trusted. But in her fourth, Arsinoe refuses to play the doomed princess. Determined to claim her own destiny, she forms an unexpected alliance with Walter Heibergh, the kingdom’s most formidable commander — one powerful enough to change fate itself.

As the blind daughter of Duke Aegis, Ariel has grown up fearing that she may never find someone who truly loves and understands her enough to marry her. It's no wonder she so readily marries Bertwald Jansel, the wealthy, cold, and cutthroat count. Despite Ariel's blindness, she can still see the colors of people's emotions, and the count seems to always exude a deep, dark red — the color of anger and hate. If that's the case, why did he marry Ariel in the first place?

On Dahlia Belohr's first day as a handmaiden, she simply receives one instruction: Whatever you do, do not, under any circumstances, go to the annex. But when an errand meant for another maid falls on her lap, Dahlia reluctantly finds herself walking through the very doors she was forbidden from entering and meets... him. The ghost of the annex. A permanent stain on the duke's legacy. The cursed bastard boy. What blooms is an unexpected connection that heals the pit of loneliness in both their hearts, despite the constant outside threats wanting to keep them apart.