THE NINE-TAILED TRAITOR PRINCE

Kaen Ashveil was supposed to die on his knees. In his first life, he read a story about a magic academy and a doomed villain prince called the Mad Fox. He argued for years online that the prince could have won his war if someone had just given him a real army. Then a truck hit him mid sentence. Now he wakes up inside that exact prince, three years before the execution he remembers dying from. He is fifteen, fox eared, hated by half the continent before he has done anything to earn it, and the only person alive who knows exactly how this story ends if nothing changes. So he changes it. By day he plays the cold, unreadable villain everyone already expects him to be. By night he trains a secret power that opens a hidden world only he can reach, a place where he starts building the one thing his kingdom never had: a real army, trained on tactics nobody here has ever thought to use. He recruits soldiers nobody else wanted. He wins allies he was never supposed to have, including an elven princess who is meant to condemn him at his own trial. And he races against a war he already knows is coming, hoping that this time, when his enemies come for his head, he will not be standing alone. He already died once believing he had to do everything by himself. He is not making that mistake twice.