Story By Mari Coco
author-avatar

Mari Coco

bc
A Royal Mess
Updated at Nov 1, 2026, 14:47
Kimberly Park, 26, had her life planned. A brilliant architect, she had just gotten the promotion she worked 5 years for. Until a rainy night on Third Mainland Bridge, when she reached for her ringing phone.One second. One truck. Her life ended.She wakes up not in a hospital, but in 1808 England - in the body of Lady Cordelia Ashworth, a 19-year-old Duke's daughter who just died after falling from her horse.And tomorrow, Cordelia is supposed to marry him.Crown Prince Aiden Cassian Thorne. 24. War hero. Ice cold. Handsome enough to make the entire court weep, and ruthless enough to make them kneel. He wanted a perfect, obedient, silent princess who would never challenge him.He did not get her.He got Kimberly.Kimberly doesn't know how to curtsy - she falls. She doesn't know how to hold a teacup - she holds it like a mug. She doesn't know how to be silent when a man tells her what to do. On their wedding night, when he tells her to learn to be a proper wife, she tells him to learn to say please.No one has ever dared speak to Prince Aiden like that.Now the palace is in chaos. The new Crown Princess is strange. She invents fried potatoes in the royal kitchen, she teaches maids to speak up and stand up for themselves.Aiden should be furious. He tries to be.But he can't look away. Because when she laughs - loud, bright, unladylike - something frozen in his heart begins to crack.She thought she got a second chance at life.He thought he got a loveless political marriage.But someone in the palace wanted the real Cordelia dead. And they won't stop just because a more stubborn girl is now wearing her face.She died once in her world and she can't afford to die again.Can she survive falling in love with the ruthless prince she never wanted?
like