Jaywalker_Holmes

Mana was a brilliant young lawyer working for the biggest international law firm in the world. With her prodigious talents, influential family and a perfect fiancé, her life was considered a dream come true…until a freak accident cost her everything. Or so she thought. After three years of being confined to a hospital bed, the man she had loved with all her heart told her about his betrayal as he slit her throat.

The next moment, Mana found herself in the body of a sickly ten-year-old princess of the same name, in a world she thought to be fictional. “The Legend of Mars” was an ancient epic chronicling the adventures of the divine King Mars and his virtuous wife, Queen Astra, and their triumph over the evil, half-demon emperor Raven. Princess Mana was the unfortunate half-sister of Princess Astra, who died at the age of ten…and somehow pulled in Mana’s soul.

And thus, Royal Princess Mana decided to make the best of her new chance at life and seek happiness. However, she soon found that what she had read in “The Legend of Mars” and the actual people she met were very different. Why was the divine child Mars an insufferable brat? Why was the virtuous Astra plotting nefarious schemes? Why did the brother of Mars look exactly like her traitorous fiancé of her previous life? And the meek little boy she accidentally rescued was actually the fearsome evil emperor …? But why on earth was he clinging to her and looking at her with puppy eyes?

The Evil Emperor's Fragile Heart

"Grandfather!" Rook cried happily and rushed to hug the man, not even realising Raven's discomfort and Mana's protective stance.

"You're right that they're all very protective of Big Brother Raven!" Rook chattered away happily. "Big Brother Raven has become really awesome! And really powerful! And really clever! And he just taught me the concept of sovereignty!" he gushed.

Mana didn't move, still shielding Raven. She didn't withdraw the rising green haze around her, either.

The man – who Mana now knew to be King Corvus of the Obsidian Kingdom and Raven's grandfather, and the man who had thrown Raven to the Emerald Kingdom as if he was cannon fodder – raised his lips in a sarcastic smile as he looked down at Mana and Raven.

"This is a surprise, indeed," King Corvus said, his voice laced with curiosity. "King Jaren is actually permitting a foreign prince to learn governance in his own home?"

Chapter 95 – King Corvus