“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.

Thomas had given me everything like Lauren said but I wasn't content. I still wanted to see Lauren.


I wanted to be near him at all cost because the farther I am from him, the more it feels like we are drifting apart, especially with the queen's continuous misbehavior.


I knew she was doing all that on purpose just to get the king's attention and it was working.


I see interest in the king's eyes every time Deborah's name is brought up.


It is obvious their marriage isn't on good terms especially with their strange attitude towards each other but what I was witnessing now was beginning to say otherwise.


It was at that moment a knock came at my door and I curiously went to get it while wondering if the king had sent for me.


Chapter 30 - And then came the birdy