“I gave you my soul in my last life. In this one, I’ll settle for your crown.”
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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.

"This is my sister, Princess Deborah Chadwick Wychavon," I introduced and felt a prick in my heart.


"Oh, it is an honor to finally meet with you, Princess Deborah," Lauren eagerly said and carefully took her right hand and placed a light kiss at the back of it.


All the while, I felt my internal organs twist in anguish as he did that while pretending to be thrilled by her presence and appearance.


I couldn't still believe I was going through with this plan when my entire being was against it.


Yet because I trusted my father, I went with it.


I watched how Deborah's smile nearly reached her ears to show how smitten she was by him.


I felt like my life was gradually leaving me as I watched this in sorrow because I was letting the woman I love go all because I couldn't show forth my identity just yet.


I had to take the crown first and to take the crown and become king, I needed a queen.


The moment I become king, I can fully take up my true identity without fear.


Chapter 104 - Where did it go wrong? (IV)