A Fine Line Between Redemption and Ruin

I received the imperial decree and married the emperor’s half-brother.

It took five years to tame the blunt and fierce northern alpha into behaving like a person, two years to have a child, and five years to raise that child.

After twelve years of marriage, I died at the age of thirty.

Then I reincarnated with all my memories from that life, and to meet my former husband and child again, I entered the castle where I had lived before, working as a servant there…

“Are you so starved for an omega that you would mistake the Ivan who entered the castle today for your mother? You filthy dog.”

“Go look after the omega hogging the basement. Unless you want him to freeze to death.”

Before I can deal with them, it seems this ruined father and son need rehabilitation first.

BL Guide

Background and Genre: Fantasy, Reincarnation

Work Keywords: Western-style, fantasy, omegaverse, cohabitation/spouses, first love, reunion, rivals/inferiority, status difference, age difference, handsome alpha, gentle alpha, devoted alpha, strong alpha, cold-blooded alpha, indifferent alpha, sly alpha, tsundere alpha, obsessive alpha, lovestruck alpha, pure-hearted alpha, wounded alpha, beautiful omega, cheerful omega, proactive omega, soft on the outside and strong inside omega, calculating omega, younger omega, devoted omega, salvation, past life/reincarnation, non-human beings, revenge, jealousy, confinement, royalty/nobility, tragic themes, omega’s point of view

Gong: Dmitry Slavatov ― Lord of the North, Ivan’s husband, and the emperor’s despised half-brother. Shut away in his deceased wife’s room and waiting only for death, he miraculously encounters his reincarnated wife.

Soo: Ivan Sidorov ― Born, or rather reincarnated, as Dmitry’s omega to a merchant couple in the North. Receiving the imperial decree, he marries Dmitry, tames him into living like a person, bears and raises their child, dies at thirty, and after reincarnating, returns to the castle to find his husband and son again.

Read When: You want to see a northern alpha husband who recognizes only one lifelong partner, and when you miss their son.

Resonant Line: “My son, a lovable and pitiful bastard. Can he… be made into a proper person?”