Unbinding the Silent Empress
By @Jessie
After a lifetime of playing the docile, mute chess piece to secure her family’s prosperity, Lady Vivienne Vance was poisoned by the very brother she bled to elevate. But death refuses to hold her. Vivienne wakes up five years in the past, her voice intact, her hands unstained, and her heart turned to absolute stone. Armed with a rare, forbidden soul-binding resonance that allows her to manipulate the lifeforce of those who pledge their loyalty to her, she vows to dismantle her family’s legacy brick by brick. No longer the sacrificial lamb, she enters a dangerous pact with the empire’s feared, treasonous Grand Duke. In this second life, she will not beg for love or mercy. She will seize the throne herself, even if she must burn the empire to ash to keep it. Every smile is a trap; every alliance is a transaction. This time, the silent puppet is pulling the strings.
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