No Regression for the Victor

Afterward, he finds himself reincarnated as a terminally ill mastermind who came close to seizing control of an empire but ultimately failed.

Exhausted by his family's betrayal, Hyeon accepts his fate: a curse will claim his life in just a few years. He decides to spend his remaining days in peace, awaiting death at his place of exile, the Frozen Lake.

His only visitor is Misha, the one person who comes all the way to the desolate Frozen Lake to see him, where no one else ever ventures.
But the price of trusting someone once more comes back to haunt him in a way he never expected.

“Pardon my bluntness, Sir Isaac. Based on your symptoms, there is only one possible diagnosis: pregnancy.”

Misha, whom Hyeon had believed to be nothing more than his attendant and assigned watcher, turns out to be none other than Mikhail, the protagonist, who has now become the Crown Prince.
And after being betrayed once again, Hyeon discovers that he is carrying Mikhail's child in an alpha's body.

Yet Mikhail, who has come to take Hyeon back to the Imperial Palace, offers nothing but unbelievable excuses...

“I now understand that with half-hearted feelings, I can neither have you nor protect you.”

The child was someone Hyeon had accepted by summoning the last of his strength after a lifetime of misery.
He couldn't bear the thought of being betrayed by the very child he had come to cherish.

'If I am the most precious thing to you, the one who desecrated my final days, then surely there is something I must do to give you the greatest revenge of all.'

After losing Hyeon through his own poor choices and immaturity, Mikhail returns to the past and makes a different choice from the one he made in his first life, determined not to repeat his mistakes.

This time, he will do whatever it takes to save the person he loves.