“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.

By the time the gates leading to the palace opened and we rode in, I had already held the door handle of the carriage as I prepared to climb out and run up to my father.


It wasn't late into the night and I am pretty sure he must be exhausted but I am certain he would be happy to see his daughter…right?


By the time they parked the carriages by the grand entrance of the palace, I opened the door before the guard of the palace could do so and I jumped down on my own in happiness before running around the carriage and up the grand stairs without waiting for my brother and stepsister.


There was no one at the entrance waiting to receive us except the palace guards but when I hurried all the way up, I caught someone running from inside and the moment she got closer, I instantly recognized who she was.


It was my stepmother and Ruby's mother.


Chapter 96 - Percy all along