Condemn Me as a Monster, Then Beg Me to Return

Synopsis

The Federation's strongest female commander, Alya Vell, was adopted and trained from a young age by the Federation's founder, Augustus. Three years ago, she was accused of three major crimes—killing her daughter, betraying the country, and causing the deaths of three thousand soldiers—and pretended to join the enemy organization Black Crown as its second-in-command, the 'Black Crown Queen.' In reality, she was an undercover agent arranged by her mentor, secretly gathering evidence against the mastermind X. After three years, Alya was brought by her husband, Federation Marshal Damien, to a live, public memory trial, where all citizens spat on her as a monster who harmed her own family and betrayed the nation. Damien sought to punish her in front of everyone, intending to execute her personally. During the trial, the mandatory memory extraction began, and Alya tried desperately to resist, revealing the suppressed truths layer by layer: back then, she exposed herself to poison to extract antibodies to save her husband and daughter who were infected with a deadly virus; the alleged 'killing of her daughter' was actually piercing her daughter’s heart to simulate death and stop the virus from spreading while placing her in a cryo-chamber to survive with Alya’s antibodies; the three thousand Iron Harbor soldiers didn’t die because of her betrayal but were secretly transferred to safety; and joining Black Crown was entirely part of her mentor's undercover plan. During the trial, the federation’s Chief Justice Silas kept blocking the truth, trying to silence her, revealing himself as a high-ranking pawn of X. Following clues, everyone discovered that Alya’s most trusted mentor, Augustus, was actually the real mastermind behind Black Crown, X. He had created both the Federation and Black Crown to profit from conflict, secretly implanted a neural control device in Damien, and saw Alya as the perfect weapon he could manipulate. Crisis struck when her daughter was kidnapped by Augustus as a hostage, and Damien, remotely controlled, nearly harmed Alya. She painfully removed his neural control core. In desperation, Alya activated her life-enhancing core, which lasted ten minutes, to fight side by side with Damien, destroying the villain’s global neural control network and taking down Augustus together. Miraculously, Alya survived the ruins, and Damien, fully aware of the truth, wept in repentance and asked her forgiveness, letting go of hatred and prejudice. The Federation fully exonerated Alya, and she woke her daughter Elowen from three years of cryosleep, clearing all the stigma. The two healed their three-year estrangement and promised to face everything honestly together, no longer bearing suffering alone. In the end, the family returned to ordinary life, but there was a hint left: deep-level control programs still remained in Damien, and together they would remove the hidden dangers and completely cut off X’s lingering schemes.