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Empress Ozara Nightshade is searching for a powerful royal to become her bride, and her search leads her straight to the Vaelmont family. There’s only one problem: they lied about which sibling she came for. Y/N, the abused and unwanted youngest Vaelmont, secretly possesses the strongest Mana in the family. Determined to give their beloved eldest daughter everything, King Darius and Queen Kiara claim the power belongs to Simone instead. Believing Simone is her destined bride, Ozara and her boyfriend/personal knight, Kani-Jay, stay at the Vaelmont palace so Ozara can properly court her. Meanwhile, Y/N is given one order: Stay invisible. But that becomes increasingly impossible. Ozara keeps unintentionally seeking Y/N out, confused by how naturally drawn she feels toward them. Kani notices something far darker—the bruises, fear, missing meals, suspicious “accidents,” and the way the entire family desperately tries to keep Y/N away from them. While Ozara slowly questions whether she chose the right sibling, Kani begins falling for the one everyone told him not to notice. And every time Y/N fails to remain invisible, their family makes sure they suffer for it. The Vaelmonts built Simone’s future upon one enormous lie. Now they just have to keep an increasingly suspicious Empress and her terrifyingly observant knight from discovering the truth: Y/N was the one Ozara came looking for all along.