His Secret Reborn Warrior Fated Mate

I fought brutal battles on the front lines, bleeding to earn military honors for the Carlisle family.

But the moment I returned, my adoptive mother demanded I transfer all my hard-earned achievements to her useless biological daughter, Corinne.

"It's best to look humble when you're begging for a favor," her maid sneered, tossing me a faded gray dress.

Desperate for a crumb of my adoptive mother's affection, I foolishly agreed.

That single act of submission was my ruin, stripping me of my only leverage.

Once I was useless, she framed and executed my brilliant brother. She slowly poisoned my true mother to death under the guise of illness.

Finally, she locked me in my room and set it on fire.

As the flames seared my flesh from bone, the last thing I saw was my adoptive mother's triumphant, contemptuous smile.

Until I burned to ash, I didn't understand. I had sacrificed everything for them.

Why was my blind loyalty rewarded with the brutal slaughter of my real family?

Opening my eyes again, I was back at twenty years old.

It was the exact morning they were coming to make me surrender my honors to Corinne.

I looked at the drab gray dress laid out for my humiliation, and tore it to shreds.

This time, I put on my battle armor.