Wangzi Yu Ta De Hei Yueguang

Lenka Normans had barely settled into the weight of his crown when the blade fell—not from a rival kingdom or a scheming noble, but from the one person he trusted most. His childhood companion, Jane Grey, betrayed him in the very hour of his triumph, cutting short what should have been a reign of promise and turning him into the empire’s most fleeting emperor. Yet fate, in its strange mercy, granted him a second breath: Lenka awoke as a six-year-old boy, memories of betrayal still raw, his mind aching with the knowledge of what awaited. Determined to rewrite his destiny, he resolved to sever every thread connecting him to Jane, believing that distance alone would keep the noose from tightening again. But the past is not so easily outrun. In the corridors of his childhood palace, Lenka finds himself confronted by a familiar face—though not the poised, calculating traitor he remembers. This Jane is small, bruised, and cowering under the taunts of other children, a victim rather than a viper. When her gaze catches his across the courtyard, Lenka feels the old dread stir, yet he cannot ignore the pitiful sight before him. The boy who swore to flee now hesitates, caught between the cold logic of survival and the unsettling truth that the monster he fled may not yet exist. With Jane’s eyes fixed on him, Lenka wonders if his second chance has already slipped through his fingers—or if salvation lies not in running, but in facing a very different kind of ghost.