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She was never supposed to survive.
What happens when a princess meant for flowers and jewels hides her identity as a woman, takes her brother's place on the battlefield, and fights alongside the cursed groom destined to kill his brides the man who was supposed to be her husband?
For twenty years, Princess Karni ,has lived with a truth no child should bear: her father, the King, despises her very existence. She has survived countless assassination attempts, poisoned cups slipped into her hands, and blades that found her in the darkness.
Yet what her father meant to destroy, he unknowingly forged instead. Through pain and persecution, she became a warrior more skilled than his ten beloved sons, a strategist sharper than his own generals, and a patriot more devoted to the kingdom than anyone who wears the crown.
But a capable daughter is far more dangerous than a dead one.
Unable to name her heir and desperate to remove her from his sight, the King arranges her marriage to the realm's most feared general, a man from a cursed clan where brides don't survive their wedding night.
Then war erupts at the kingdom's borders, and everything changes.
The enemy advances with ruthless force. The recruitment decree is absolute: every household must send its men to fight, including the King's own sons. But his love for them is his greatest weakness. He cannot bear to lose them.
She sees her chance and offers a bargain to
let her go to war in her brother's place, disguised as a man, carrying his identity.
The King agrees without hesitation, already imagining her corpse on some distant battlefield, finally rid of the daughter he despises.
But in his eagerness to see her gone, he's made a fatal miscalculation. He has placed her exactly where she has always belonged: on the front lines of war, serving as vice general under the command of none other than her own betrothed, the infamous general who is supposed to become her executioner.
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