“I gave you my soul in my last life. In this one, I’ll settle for your crown.”
~
In my first life, I was the devoted Queen. I waited two months for my husband, King Lauren, to return from the front lines—only for him to walk through the palace gates with a beautiful young maiden by his side and a decree in his hand: ‘She would be the new Queen’.
And because of that evil beauty he brought to our kingdom, I died a discarded "nobody," executed for a crime I didn't commit.
But death didn't take me. It sent me back.
I woke up on the morning of his return. The crowds are cheering, the flowers are blooming, and my husband is about to humiliate me in front of the entire kingdom.
But he doesn't know I've changed. He doesn't know I've returned with a special skill that makes me the most dangerous woman in the room.
Before he can introduce his "New Queen," I hand him the one thing no one in this kingdom has ever dared to ask for: Divorce papers.
In our land, a Queen asking for divorce is an abomination punishable by stoning.
But Lauren thinks I’m bluffing. He looks me in the eye, tears my petition to shreds, and growls, “You are my wife. I will never stamp those papers.”
He thinks he is keeping me trapped. He doesn't realize he has trapped himself in a palace with a woman who knows every one of his secrets—and is prepared to burn his kingdom to the ground just to see him sign his name.
My goal is simple; I will make him fall... not in love, but to his knees.
Since he spent my first life making me cry. I’ll spend my second making him bleed.

As expected, what nearly happened to Deborah spread around like wildfire and it affected her by hindering men from coming for her hand in marriage.


When King Chadwick, our father found out, he said,


"You did good in killing that unhinged beast."


"Never would I have imagined something like this would happen but it seems like fate is pulling you both together. No man wants her and this is your chance. I will handle everything regarding the charges against you for murdering their son so don't bother about it."


But even after that, I never remained the same. Something shifted within me and from then onwards I lived according to the rumors that circulated about me.


Deborah was rumored around but what I did overshadowed hers and soon it got drowned by the things I did for her sake.


Chapter 103 - Where did it go wrong? (III)