The Tyrant Wants to Be Good

Born into a gilded cage that offered her nothing but cold neglect, Dorothea Millanaire learned early that love, attention, and power were not gifts to be given—they were prizes to be taken. And so she took them, carving a bloody path to the throne with a sword that became the very symbol of her tyranny. Yet, for all her conquests, her reign ended as it began: alone and despised, her final act a futile swing of her blade against the executioner's block. As the darkness claimed her, she expected nothing but oblivion. Instead, she opened her eyes to the impossible—a child's body, a past not yet written. The world has granted her a second chance, a reprieve she never asked for but now desperately clings to. Haunted by the ghost of the monster she became, Dorothea is determined to rewrite the course of her life. She must bury the blood-soaked ambition that defined her and learn to walk a gentler path, for to repeat her history is to ensure her own doom. But in a palace where eyes watch for weakness and the shadows of her future crimes loom large, simply *wanting* to be good is a fragile shield. She must learn what it truly means to be a better person—not with the sword, but with her heart—before her old nature, and the world itself, drags her back into the abyss.