After the Political Alliance: The Profligate Royal Heir Bends the Knee to Her

Isabelle was maimed and abandoned in the southern borderlands by her stepmother and stepsister, then rose through bloodshed as the mercenary White Eagle. To reclaim her mother’s fief, she accepts the king’s bargain: a one-year contract marriage to Roland, a frivolous royal grandson. Love blooms, but at their wedding, her stepmother frames her with an illegitimate child scandal. A witness exposes her murder of the former lord—yet her final revenge is already underway.