“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.

I shouted in rage for her sake and seeing that my reaction was what she needed, she smirked in triumph and stormed away in satisfaction.


Once she had gotten far, I spoke to Peter without looking at him.


"What is she saying?" I calmly demanded. 


"It is not true, father. You can ask Ruby or Lady Dally." He honestly defended himself.


"Then what happened?" I probed for answers.


"We kissed in the carriage but when we arrived home, we stopped and she left the carriage while I remained there for a moment. Much later I decided to go to her room to reflect there like always as you already know and I discovered she was there, naked in her bathtub…but nothing happened, just another heated kissing," he summarized and I frowned in confusion at the last line.


"That is the perfect scene for intimacy and yet you didn't have your way?" I asked in disbelief as I looked at him in shock.


Chapter 130 - With child...