by john1208·Translated by Novel AI Studio
Zofia Volkov was once the heir to a celebrated family of automaton music box makers, until their name was shattered by bankruptcy and scandal, driving her parents to suicide. Decades later, Zofia dies alone, a bitter and forgotten woman haunted by regret. But instead of an end, she wakes up twenty years in the past, a week before the disaster that ruined everything. Armed with foreknowledge, she moves to prevent the key events that led to her family's collapse. Her first success, however, triggers a horrifying new reality: for every person she saves, the threads of fate demand a substitute. A dear family friend dies in a freak accident exactly when a creditor should have. Zofia is trapped in a cruel equation of fate, and her frantic, inexplicable actions attract the cold, calculating gaze of Stellan Koslov, her family's greatest business rival. He was the architect of her original misery, but now, he might be the only person powerful enough to help her defy destiny. Can Zofia rewrite the past without paying for it in blood, and can she trust the man she was born to hate?
