He doesn’t know why the sword fits his hand so well.
Why the techniques come too easily.
Or why people keep expecting him to fail.
Daniel never belonged in this world—but now that he’s in it, he’s making it his. One quiet move at a time.
When a political marriage ties him to the empire’s most dangerous noble house, he keeps his head down and builds a system no one understands—except maybe the man who lived in his body before him.
A dead genius.
An unfinished interface.
A world about to burn.
He doesn’t need love. He needs time.
And if no one stops him… he’s going to change everything.