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Prologue
Lillian Tillard was a worthless failure.
And she was everyone’s emotional security blanket.
Why wouldn’t she be? A presence that provided relief, the comforting thought, ‘At least my life isn’t as messed up as hers.’
‘The only incompetent in the Tillard family’……
‘A worthless failure who can’t suppress berserk abilities at all’……
‘A woman even her fiance finds disgusting’……
If you looked for the owner of any bad nickname, it was generally Lillian.
She was born into one of the most noble families, yet it seemed she had a hobby of collecting only trash.
But today, at the imperial competition to crown the next Crown Prince of the Pernis Empire.
“Lady Lillian! Lady Lillian!”
“Your Highness Evren!”
“Lady Lillian is the best!”
Wow……!
The spectator stands of the arena where the competition was being held reverberated with cheers.
Amazingly, it was in the name of Lillian, the owner of those trash-like nicknames.
A noblewoman watching from the stands clenched her fist in excitement.
“I saw it with my own eyes, yet I can’t believe it……!”
“Her awakening was a miracle in itself, but to purify the mental corruption of so many people at once……!”
“We came to see this at just the right time!”
We got our money’s worth!
The woman, who had been cheering excitedly, suddenly looked at her companion with envious eyes.
“Ah, but you’re wearing the ‘Mariposa’ earrings.”
“Ahhhh. You noticed?”
“How could I not?”
They were a design highly praised in the capital, and an artifact that could even ‘fix ability sickness’.
“I must buy a pair next time too……. If only Lady Lillian would release more.”
“Hehe, you have to buy them right away because they sell out so fast. It’s better than buying from the Tillard side now-.”
The chattering spectators suddenly sneaked glances at a certain family on one side of the arena.
The atmosphere around the Duke Tillard family was no different from that of a funeral home.
The faces of the once ‘perfect Tillard siblings’ were also dark and gloomy.
“……So Lady Iris’s businesses, it turns out, were all done by Lady Lillian-.”
“Shh, shh.”
“It’s a story everyone knows anyway, isn’t it?”
“That may be so, but…….”
The two looked back at the Tillard family again.
Who could have known?
That the discarded incompetent, Lillian, would rise as the brightest star in the Empire.
Let alone that she would return as the fiancee of the infamous 1st Prince.
The fateful love of two people from hostile families!
They say today’s event was made possible by the power of that fateful love……
“But where could Lady Lillian and His Highness have gone now?”
“The competition is still ongoing…….”
The people in question were currently locked in a lounge within the arena.
……Bang, bang.
BANG!
A huge hole appeared in the wall, hard as diamond.
Lillian, with her pink hair and green eyes glinting with golden particles, thought:
I’m screwed.
“Your Highness.”
Lillian whispered to the man clawing at the area near his heart.
“Your Highness, get a hold of yourself.”
“Haa, ugh.”
When Lillian placed her hand on his pain-wracked back, the 1st Prince, Evren, groaned in agony.
The 1st Prince, Evren.
An S-class ability user, but the ‘original story’s’ villain.
The man called the Imperial Mad Dog in an empire without rabies…
Lillian once gave this man silly nicknames like ‘warm iced american’ ‘silver jerk’…
Basically, funny names for a terrifying opponent.
Because he seemed more and more human as time went on.
But now, sweat dripped down the face visible beneath his shimmering silver hair.
A red spiderweb pattern was gradually spreading across his left cheek.
Is he really going to go berserk here…?
“wren!”
“……Lily. So you were going to leave.”
The man smiled faintly. With his originally bewitching, fox-like beauty…
But the bit berserk symptoms made him look dangerous somehow.
“Ren, snap out of it. We have to go back out!”
“I’ve made it so you can’t live without me.”
“Wait a minute? Where did you learn such an impertinent line-”
“Just where… do you think you’re going?”
And then he reached out and grabbed Lillian’s hand.
The lips pressed against their interlaced fingers were hot enough to sting slightly.
He laughed, looking at the flustered Lillian.
“My life is ruined, so you should be ruined with me.”
“Ha…!”
Lillian thought again.
Those who try to twist the original plot always get their due, it seems.
But she couldn’t let this happen now.
How did things even come to this?
‘It must be because of that damn phytoncide…….’
And then his face drew closer.
Chapter 1. To Be Discarded, a Grand Plan is Needed
Lillian had changed.
Lillian’s fiance, Marquis Karkin Pavil, was irritated.
For about a month now, Lillian had been ignoring all his contact!
He was condescending to marry an incompetent, and she dared?
“It’s time to teach her a lesson.”
Karkin smirked and pulled the ‘breaking of engagement’ document from his jacket pocket.
This was the ‘Break-up Game.’
A method he used whenever he wanted to see Lillian grovel and cling to him!
‘I’ll throw it at her at the party today.’
Chuckling to himself, Karkin entered the Tillard family garden.
Many nobles were already waiting for the tea party.
But why were everyone’s looks so…?
“My goodness, the young Marquis-”
“I can’t believe it……”
“Ahem, to think you were harboring such… a painful love.”
What?
Then he saw a familiar pink-haired woman.
Lillian Tillard.
His foolish fiancée.
“Karkin. I had no idea.”
“What?”
“That you and my cousin were in such a… painful relationship.”
Thud!
A newspaper article fell at Karkin’s feet.
<Young Marquis Pavilion, Even When Cheating, ‘His Taste Doesn’t Change’>
<The Empire’s most respected ‘Holy Five Great Families’ member, Karkin Pavill!
Despite his decade-long fiancee, Lady Lillian Tillard,
Why did he enjoy dates with her cousin, Lady Iris Tillard?
“Our love is too painful, yet we can’t break it off.”>
……Who leaked this?
Lillian smirked inwardly.
It was me, you filthy bastard.
‘Leaking it anonymously to the newspaper is child’s play.’
Lillian silently approached Karkin, who was still frozen in shock.
Slap! Slap!
And then she slapped both of Karkin’s cheeks with icy precision.
“Ugh ugh……!”
He came to mock Lillian, but how does it feel to be made a fool of in front of everyone?
“So prepared, Karkin Pavill. You even prepared the breaking of engagement document for your new love.”
“You, you……!?”
“Yes, I’ll grant you your wish as you wanted.”
Lillian gracefully scrawled her signature on the document meant to threaten her.
One copy fluttered down onto the head of her collapsed former fiance.
Lillian then turned to the other culprit.
Her platinum-haired, green-eyed cousin, trembling pitifully.
“Iris. Congratulations.”
“Si-sister?”
“I yield the future position of Duchess to you.”
“……!”
“Well, Iris, the young Marquis suits you better than His Highness Prince Kyle anyway.”
“I, I have no interest in the young Marquis!”
At Lillian’s ‘blessing,’ the muscles in Iris’s face collapsed.
She only played with Karkin because he was her sister’s fiance!
Karkin wore a bewildered expression.
“What? Iris, that’s not what you said! You said it was only me…?”
“Young Marquis, please be quiet-!”
The onlookers watching this scene began to whisper.
“My word, what is happening……!”
“He’s really breaking off the engagement for Lady Iris?”
“Poor Lady Lillian.”
Clap!
When Lillian clapped her hands, the crowd instinctively focused on her.
The original villainess, always gloomy and petty, was smiling with utmost elegance.
“It seems the Young Marquis is leaving. See him out the front gate, please.”
Let’s take out the trash via the main entrance.
‘Now, will you all get lost, one by one?’
From my new life.
