An emperor who met a wrongful death is reborn as a despised illegitimate heir! Young wizard Ian, ruler of the Bariel Empire, was overthrown by his treacherous nephew and imprisoned. Rescued by the sorcerer Naum through forbidden chronomancy, Ian finds himself a century in the past—now inhabiting the body of Bastard Ian, the disgraced offspring of a doomed noble house. As barbarians close in to capture him, the reincarnated emperor must navigate deadly political schemes. The Margrave’s outcast was once the empire’s sovereign.