Bloody Camellia

To her, he was the sun and the stars, the light in her darkness and the warmth in her eternally cold existence,

But to him, she was only but a protector, a weapon and a means to an end.

Though she lived and died for his cause, not once did he gaze upon her with warmth,

And though she saw him alone even untill she took her dying breath, never was she able to reach his heart.

It was only in death she realized she had never truly lived,

She had spent an entire lifetime gazing only at that cold and unfeeling man that she had failed to see the one who stared from a distance, protecting from the shadows.

The one who saw her alone and loved her unconditionally,

If she were to be granted a second chance, she wanted to ask that man in the shadows why?

Just why had he loved a monster as she?
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Aviana Selven, the great Blood General of the Azovan Empire dies on the battlefield, with a heart filled with regrets.

Granted a new life and with the knowledge of the future, Aviana must battle against fate and protect her family from death, while ensuring to live her own life to the fullest, fulfilling all her dreams and aspirations she had foregone in the previous life...

Most importantly, Aviana must somehow find that stranger she had met in her dying moment who's identity was unknown to her for she had vowed that in this lifetime, he alone was deserving of her love.

However Aviana is cornered when the emperor who had never cared for her in the previous life appears in her life once again, completely and hopelessly in love with Aviana and determined to make her his.

Aviana must choose between the emperor whom she had loved in her previous life and the mysterious stranger who had loved her through two lifetimes.

*Cover art sourced from the internet, all credits to the original artist*