Waking up after a fatal plane crash should have been a relief, but for Ruby, the nightmare is only just beginning. She has been reborn as Rudbeckia de Borgia, the doomed princess of a corrupt papacy and a minor villainess destined to die at the hands of her own husband. To survive the brutal political games of her father and the sadistic whims of her brother, she is shipped off to the cold North to marry the empire’s most formidable paladin, Iske van Omerta. Surrounded by people who despise her family’s name and a husband who looks at her with nothing but freezing suspicion, Ruby has only one weapon: a mask of harmless, bubbly innocence. She plays the role of the lovestruck, airheaded wife perfectly, hoping that if she can just make the North fall for her, she might keep her head on her shoulders. But beneath the smiles and the clumsy antics is a woman haunted by the trauma of two lifetimes, desperately waiting for someone to finally see the real her and offer a hand instead of a blade. This is not just a game of political survival; it is a broken soul’s last-ditch effort to find a home where she does not have to live in fear.

Manhwa, Isekai, Tragedy, Psychological, Romance, Villainess, Arranged Marriage, Drama, Trauma, Fantasy