“At my Mating Ceremony, I dragged my crippled leg to the sacred altar, enduring the sneers of hundreds of nobles who called me a wolfless piece of trash. But instead of completing our bond, my fiancé Kade looked at me with pure disgust and publicly rejected me. He demanded a bride swap with my younger half-sister, Carmen. My biological father eagerly agreed. He and my stepmother orchestrated this humiliation just to quietly steal my late mother's one-million-gold dowry for Carmen's wedding. Even the high priestess took their bribes to bless this betrayal. The suffocating shock of being abandoned by my mate and sold out by my own family shattered the original Elena's soul, killing her instantly on the cold stone floor. They thought they could just discard a useless cripple, pocket my massive inheritance, and hide the filthy secret that their "pure" new bride was already two months pregnant with Kade's bastard. They thought I would just crawl away in tears. But they didn't know the weak Elena was already dead. When I opened my eyes again, a cold, analytical calm flooded my veins. "I accept your rejection." Pulling the royal notary scroll from my sleeve, I prepared to dissect their dirty secrets in front of the entire kingdom.”