Even If Trampled and Shattered

Princess Hestia of Elsword, the kingdom’s revered saintess, loses everything when a new saintess appears—her status, her health, and finally her fiancé, who abandons her at the altar to choose another. After dying from her terminal illness, Hestia miraculously awakens one year in the past, and with her political marriage unavoidable, she turns to the only man ruthless enough to protect her: Aslan Calati, the northern "barbarian" who despises her. Though he swears to trample and break her, accepting her only for revenge, the hatred between them slowly begins to thaw in the frozen north, where an unexpected love dares to bloom.