Synopsis
“Your crime is your very existence, Empress. Being an orphan with nothing to your name, the least you could’ve done is be born with some feminine charm.”
I saved my dying husband’s lifelong enemy with my own hands.
There was no other reason.
It was because the emperor—my husband—abandoned me first.
He sided with my best friend, and eventually even stripped me of the title of Empress to gift it to her.
No matter how I struggled, the ending of this tragedy had never once changed.
“Don’t die. You’re someone worth keeping alive.”
On the day I despaired, certain that nothing would change in this life either,
a dark avenger appeared to offer me a deal.
It was Siegfried, the abandoned First Prince sent as a hostage from the northern kingdom of Norden.
“So come with me, Empress. Then the life you’re so desperate to throw away—I’ll take it from you.”
Telling me to wield him like a blade, he willingly placed himself in my hand, growling,
tempting me with the promise that he wouldn’t let the end of my revenge be lonely.
“Make a pact with me. So I can take you away.”
“I’ll do it.”
And so I made up my mind.
“How could you choose another man over me?”
To the husband who regretted everything far too late—
“Please, just forgive me once. We were friends, weren’t we? Please?”
—to the best friend who cried and begged only after it was all over,
I swore I would never again show mercy.
Even if I were cursed to return a million times for this sin,
I would gladly come back every single time
to drive a blade straight into your hearts.
I would become the villainess who never lets you escape.